Quote:
Originally Posted by Indiana
"Furthermore, we have to realize who has the function and qualification as the priest to discern leprosy among the Lord's children." - WL. 1993
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Let me see if I can understand this allegory. According to WL he is comparing JI and others to those with leprosy. The reason they are considered "leprous" is because they tried to protect the saints in the church that they were elders from a lecherous man, who happened to be WL's son.
According to this analogy it was the OT priesthood that was responsible to deal with leprosy. According to Peter, the saints in the NT are "a royal priesthood". So when WL says "we have to realize who has the function and qualification as the priest to discern leprosy among the Lord's children" is he referring to the saints in the church? Is he referring to us? Because if he isn't it sounds like he is promoting a clergy laity system which, in my opinion, would be extremely hypocritical for a person that disparaged the clergy laity as much as he did.