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Originally Posted by OBW
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.
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Reading
ToG again recently, it seemed that BP went thru a kind of anguish of heart concerning Jane Anderson. He would inquire of her while visiting OKC. (I would post some quotes here, but the PDF does not allow that.) Then BP himself eventually visited the Anderson's. (see pg 221) There BP was not faithful to his heart, however, and instead began to "sermonize" about unrelated principles of the Christian life. Instead of listening to her example, BP built up his armored defenses again by some WL nonsense about "
some deceptions take ten years to be delivered from."
My impression was that BP inquired of Jane A, and eventually visited her and her husband, not out of heart-felt brotherly concern, but out of conviction of conscience. That conviction only seemed to operate while he was at a distance from them. Once he was in their presence, the mental strongholds gripped him once again. It did not seem to me that in their presence he was even capable of speaking from his heart, rather he reverted back to WL doublespeak about the deception of the enemy.
My conclusion was that BP had missed his only opportunity to apologize and be reconciled. He was as close as he would ever get, and then ran off frightened and stiff-necked back into the WL-land of authoritarianism. Hence, BP was ever under the burden of turmoil within. The attempts by the Anderson's and other saints in the early 90's to rescue a failing marriage only exacerbated his inner torment. The old spiritual battleground between heart and mind. Without some definite decision to soften his heart in obedience, his only recourse was to bury his head in denial and a "busy schedule."
Finally, some two decades later, upon discovering that Jane A. had actually written a book about these events, thus committing the "
mortal sin" of leaving the Recovery
and talking about it. All those mental WL-alarms went off in BP's head. Thus the turmoil within him was over. He had not made a "mistake" back in that Memorial day weekend of 1977 that possibly needed to be repented of.
No, never! He was not too hard on her. "She deserved it! Look what she did! She was wrong all along! I just knew it!"
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Wait till I get to the training and tell everybody."
What a happy day! Finally ... I am clear!