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Originally Posted by awareness
And the fact that Lee thought and said he was the oracle of God on the earth proves, by such inferior Bible studies, that he had a delusional self image. In short, he thought way more of himself then he ever should have. And those that blindly attached their wagon to Lee joined in his delusion.
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Two things about Lee that didn't sit well with me. First, he compared his ministry with others' and basically said that he was the only one on earth with anything profitable for the church today. So his ministry was better than any other. He was "today's Paul". Second, compared to the local church members, they were so beneath him that they couldn't even comprehend his enlightened talks. He compared it to playing piano to cows. The exalted visions of his teachings were so far above the rest of us that all we could do was repeat them, verbatim, endlessly, until we "got it"; but even that would of course be below the original. Any defects in the church life experience were not due to his teachings, example, and leadership, but because the poor sheep were so stupid. None of that particularly sat well, but, hey, "It's the church".
I also have biases. I, like Dong Yu Lan, prefer the apostle John to the apostle Paul. And so forth. But I am not going to merchandise my preferences as if they were equivalent to God's word. My opinions don't equal "God's speaking on the earth today"... they are just my opinions. Same as those of Lee, or Dong Yu Lan, or Titus Chu, or Gene Gruhler, or brother awareness, or anyone else.