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Originally Posted by aron
WL in Elder's Training book 4:
Then the news went out that there was a kind of trend. The saints thought we were going back to the old doctrines and some even came to me and said, “This is good because this shows people that this is not only Witness Lee's writing, but all the writings of Christianity are here.” When I heard this, I immediately made a decision to stop what we had intended to do.
It seems that WL was trying to have it both ways: he wanted to do a thorough grounding in the teachings of the past, but then he decided his readers were not stable so he put and end to it. WL wanted to put in footnotes, but he just couldn't trust the saints.
I guess.
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One thing that burned me up in W. Lee's later days was the continued suggestion that
the saints might misinterpret the Bible if they read it without the assistance of
The Ministry (which of course was his books.)
That's the same nonsense I grew up with in the Catholic Church. I heard it all the time, and initially was the same incentive for keeping the Mass in Latin. In other words,
you people are not smart enough to read God's word on your own. You might misunderstand what it says, so here is the "
interpreted version" for your reading pleasure.
Similarly some of the saints were dissuaded from reading Christian biographies, supposedly because only
THIS ministry was free from all mixtures and leavens. In actuality, the saints might discover that Lee was not as spiritual as other men of God.