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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
This is why Paul said to "avoid the appearance of sin". For an elder or church leader in this situation, the question is not whether you have heard enough, the question is whether the case is clear enough for the church. Ultimately you have to "tell it to the church" and if they don't buy it then you have a problem. Why is it that 30 years later we are still discussing this? The issue is not whether BP had heard enough, but that we have not heard enough to justify this action. 2nd, to BP at the time it may have seemed like he had "heard enough" but had he gone the extra mile he might have avoided 30 years of the story never going away, he might even have discovered that WL testimony was not credible, he might even have avoided being the head cheerleader for the BBs.
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He might have.
But don't hold your breath. He's now had 33 years and he can't extract himself. If he had any real integrity, he would have backed down years ago when challenged by Jane and John. But he stands firm in his sin despite the evidence now reaching to the heavens of an unjust servant going around beating up other of the Lord's servants.
I've not seen anything scriptural set up against the actual events that suggests he even had an inkling of something actionable back in 1977. Surely nothing to have caused such unscriptural actions. He stands alone (or with those Houston elders who stood with him) now exposed for the falsehoods that were used to exert a kind of control. (Remember that the same weekend there were a couple of larger "blow-up" conferences going on that Lee would use to begin to exert his own control. Here BP was doing the same kind of creation of a strawman to beat up and exert control.)