Originally Posted by Ohio

What you have described here -- sin becoming a teaching filter -- is exactly what upset me so about WL. I respected WL as a teacher of the Bible for close to a quarter century while he was alive, and more years after that, until I learned the real facts of the events of our history.

Volumes of WL's teachings covered those who left during the "storms" or "rebellions" which occurred from time to time. What WL taught was a "filter" to alter the facts of history and coverup the crimes of his own family. For example, applying the Levitical teachings on leprosy to brothers like John Ingalls, was to use his sin to filter the teachings of his ministry. He plainly lied to all the Recovery about Ingalls true motives and actions surrounding the supposed "rebellion." Then WL taught O.T. principles about those who rebelled. In this way, the whole recovery was corrupted, believing a liar and condemning a righteous man.