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Originally Posted by Ohio
ZNP, thank you for posting this.
I definitely heard that Irving was chosen because the leadership there was much more favorable to WL, especially during the turbulent times of the late 70's. (TC and Cleveland would have loved to have received the same opportunity.) The property was sold to the church for tax advantages, knowing that DFW was planning a runway directly over the property.
Taipei went sour. Elden hall went sour. Anaheim went sour. Needed a "new start" for the ministry.
I heard that KR was living in Greece to learn the language, and then was recalled by Texas leaders to help with the translation of the recovery version. KR later explained to us that during the Life Study era, JI's translation work lacked continuity from book to book of the New Test. I always felt that KR's work added nothing to the translation, and in fact was much less readable. It's just sickening to think that his motivation for smearing JI's name was simply to take his job and move up the ladder, but these kinds of things happen every day, just not in the kingdom of God.
If ever there was a pom-pom cheerleader of the ministry, it was he. Someone once counted 33x in one training meeting in which EM shamelessly invoked the glorious name of WL after he passed away.
To say this was done only to brown nose WL would be short-sighted. Based on others' accounts, signatures were coerced in order to bring all leaders under submission to LSM. It was a strategic power move.
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It seems very Machiavellian. There isn't a "simple misunderstanding" between JI and RG / BP / KR / EM. On the contrary this is the proverbial "selling your soul". Imagine what it must be like to be one of them: you wear a robe of being a "deputy authority" of the Lord yet in your conscience you know it a lie, the Lord knows it is a lie, the Spirit knows it is a lie, Saints whisper it is a lie, and even on the internet it is clearly proclaimed to be a lie. You can only pretend to be a Bible scholar within the small confines of the LRC, if you step outside of that bubble you get no respect at all. So if your lies have put you into a prison why would you want to be alone. You have to prepare a message or a conference, but when you pray to the Lord all you get is convicted to confess and repent. So what choice do you have but to open up an old WL message and parrot it to keep your sins hidden. Of course your wife knows, how could a wife or kids respect someone like this? Of course anyone with the slightest amount of self respect would realize this is not the person or life they want, they'd confess, repent, and go get a real job. The problem is that after 10 or 20 years in the LRC what job can you do? You aren't qualified to do anything. Anyone who thinks there isn't a hell try building your world around a lie to the church of the Living God.