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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
It seems to me that Jesus Christ is Spiritual Authority. If you are truly under His headship then you will be one with His authority..
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Jesus
had authority because he was
under authority. There was a man (Jesus the Nazarene) on the earth fully obedient to the Father's will, and thus was a vehicle for the power of God. The Roman centurion's statement "I also am a man
under authority" makes a clear analogy: the centurion could tell his servants what to do, and they obeyed, because he himself was obedient to Caesar, and thus Caesar 'spoke' through the him. He was an extension of Caesar's will. (See Matt. 8:9) The centurion recognized this relationship existed also, with Jesus and the Father who is in heaven. Jesus could merely speak a word, and the centurion's servant would be healed.
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I think it is ridiculous for a person to say that they were truly one with the head and at the same time allowed themselves to be pushed around by WL, or worse, PL.
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I guess the story we got sold was that WN got "perfected" under Miss Barber, and thus after that he didn't need to be under anyone's authority. He was only under God. WL, henceforth, sold himself as WN's sole deputy.
Conversely, the argument went that WN was under a vision, a hermeneutic, and WL likewise was under this vision. Again, therefore, they didn't need to be "under" anyone. They had a vision straight from the throne, and if you wanted to be right with God, so the story went, you had to be under Nee & Lee. The divine hierarchy went: Jesus Christ, then WN, then WL, then whomever WL chose at his right hand.
Thus, if PL was under WL, you had to be under PL to be right with God. So you ended up with an organization of christian brothers, scattered here and there, each waiting for a phone call from "the office" in Anaheim to tell them what God's next move on the earth was going to be. Ultimately, the fruit borne by WN's 'authority' teaching revealed what its source was.