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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
Have you realized that if you would have read this book back when it first came out, rather than accepting it's ban carte blanche by LSM, that you would have learned about DayStar, about the 'Rebellion', about Phillip Lee, about the differences between LSM theology and 'orthodox' Christian doctrine? Do you realize you might have seen your way out of the LSM movement DECADES ago?
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For some I suppose. There will always be saints in the recovery who believe whatever the brothers tell them in spite of contradicting reports (see Isaiah 5:20).
If you knew a brother in OKC was quarantined by JB for saying Daystar was illegal. If your background was in business law, certainly you'd have the secular discernment. Would his unscriptural quarantine make a difference more than the book? If it's inclusion in a book was spun as an attack, most saints would be dismissive.
I think if the elders and deacons in Anaheim weren't such in a mentality of deference to Witness Lee over the Philip Lee issue in 1978, what then? Of course we don't know how much communication there was between Max, John, Al, Gene, and Francis over Philip Lee. As to the Philip Lee matter, it become a "respector of persons". Because of who his father was, the brothers deferred to Witness Lee (with the exception of Max).