In the referenced document, Sherman Robertson wrote to Steve Isitt:
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The website of your "book" and also the website of your "fellowship" with those such as Don Hardy and others is now a VERY BIG PROBLEM FOR YOU. Your thought about the recovery being wrong is your major problem. Brother Lee was never wrong about anything that happened regarding the rebellion with John I. in the late 1980's.
Brother Lee is a different person than Phillip Lee. Brother Lee would never do things that others would do.
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This brief quote above highlights the Grand Canyon sized "chasm" which separates the LSM loyalists from the many former members, like Steve Isitt, who have dared to dig beneath the surface, and then speak up about what was found there. These points will always characterize the ardent followers of WL:
- The Recovery is never wrong
- Brother Lee is never wrong
- Brother Lee would never do things that others would do
These items characterize the "armor" that protects the LSM'ers stronghold. The brothers that "disciplined" Steve Isitt, consider these points to be as much a part of God's plan,
err ... God's economy, as the very virgin birth of Jesus Christ. These matters are simply not negotiable. Every other sin is forgiveable, but just like denying the virgin birth, the pivotal truth that God Himself has come in the flesh, to reject these matters constitutes the unforgiveable sin for LSM. The primary foundational characteristic of all the Blendeds is to "
hold these truths to be self-evident."
Unless we can understand the hardened mindset in the LC system, we can not appreciate the "mountain" that Steve Isitt must climb to be "reconciled." In this system, "death" is far more serious than any sin, thus LSM's chief theologian Ron Kangas has labeled Steve, "the man of death." This tag goes way beyond the Biblical "Raca" and "Moreh." (Mt 5.22) This carefully chosen epithet ranks with "the man of sin," (II Th 2.3) which was the Apostle Paul's description of the Antichrist, and since death is considered by the Blendeds to be far worse than sin, one can begin to understand the enormity of their curse upon Steve.
Which reminds me of the final Beatitude spoken by the Lord Jesus. "
Blessed are you when they reproach and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, lying, for My sake. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in the heavens, for thus they persecuted the prophets before you. You are the salt of the earth." Mt 5.11-13