[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Cassidy

Witness Lee has delivered more messages on salvation by faith through the blood of Jesus Christ than have been posted in this forum all posters combined you included.

Nah, you must be talking about a different Witness Lee. For the 35 plus years that I have been intimately familiar with the ministry of Witness Lee (including over 20 while he was still alive and speaking in public) I have never known him to emphasize the basic gospel - that of "salvation by faith through the blood of Jesus Christ". Lee called this the "lower gospel" and proudly proclaimed that his particular teachings as the "higher gospel".

It is fair and healthy to assess those teachings in light of the Bible and on their own merits.

Really? Ya don't say. Glad you see fit to concede this. Thanks.

However, if anyone believes they are qualified to judge WL righteously based on his shortcomings and failures then they should at least extend us the courtesy to disclose their own shortcomings and failures publicly so we can decide whether they are qualified to judge.

I already said that we (or at least me) are not judging solely on his shortcomings and failures - although certain of these shortcomings and failures surely disqualify Witness Lee from being the lead "apostle" or chief theologian among a sizable group of churches. Even the secular world holds it's leaders to a higher standard that was set by Lee and his sons. MY shortcomings and failures? Do you want the list alphabetical or numerical? Don't answer that - my shortcomings and failures are not going to be a topic on this forum - and neither are yours. They are irrelevant to the topic at hand.

That is the thing that I find the most disconcerting: That brothers and sisters will without hesitation presume to sit on the judgment seat of Christ and usurp His headship and act as if they themselves are qualified to do so because they are without sin or failure. Cassidy

Who here has said that they are without sin or failure? Nobody that I know of. Again, God Himself has required that we judge - please see the New Testament for details.