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Originally Posted by awareness
Potato - Patato, Tomato - Tamato ... If you must. The false teacher conned us.
The outcome is the same. Timothy Lee got rich from Daystar. The Lee's were chased out of Taipei with con in their wake. And continued here.
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It is completely different. A con man implies the church was never the church and the saints were victims of a con due to their own greed/arrogance.
A false teacher as warned by Peter/Paul and others suggests that the church was the church, and that WL and WN were merely examples of the wolves we were warned about. Hence this history is part of a continuation of the book of Acts.
WL without any doubt was a very strange "con man". Most cons are temporary, 6 months, a couple of years, etc. Even Bernie Madoff tried to have as little public exposure as possible to limit the amount of time he had to put on the con. WL's "con" was 24/7 for 50+ years. He may have deceived many of us, but without a doubt he deceived himself.
So you cannot compare WL to Paul Newman, Robert Redford or even Bernie Madoff.