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Originally Posted by aron
There are possibly two related aspects here. One might be what OBW called "this recent line of reasoning", in which we see that becoming overly focused on details can distract us from the simple (but spiritually deep) core message of God's love for us all, reaching us in His Son Christ Jesus. For example, the "high peak teachings" may have caused us to care more for "the feeling in the Body" than for loving our neighbor. If so, I argue that we have been misled.
Secondly, and related, is our attention to God's Holy Word. Perhaps our teachings have led us to conclude that some scriptures are actually untrustworthy as a divinely inspired record, but rather are the opinions of fallen men. And suppose one of these sections of OT scripture of which we have such little regard, Psalms, happens to be most prominently cited in the NT as revealing Christ, with no countervailing NT "warning" telling us to stay away from its 'natural' parts? Then again I would argue that our teachings have led us astray.
Psalm 119 says "The unfolding of your words emits light"; if Psalm 3 unfolds before me, with "I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me" emitting light onto NT verses like "I have the power to lay My life down, and the power to raise it up again", then what teaching should cause me to ignore that light? What teaching could cause me to disregard scripture thus?
And I don't think it's coincidental that the same teaching, causing our disregard for the Word also taught us to disregard our fellows. Because the motive power that caused Jesus to lay His life down was indeed allied with God's love toward us. "There is no greater love than this, than should a man lay down his life for his friends." Our appreciation for, and attention to God's Word should only be matched by our love toward our neighbor. Any teaching which distracts us from such a path should be called out for what it is.
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aron, this has to be one of your best posts ever.
What was called "high peak teaching" did more to destroy the essential life and love in the body of Christ than perhaps any other. It was not just the puffing up that occurred in the Recovery with saints claiming to be "baby Gods," but it was the disguised deception which surgically separated us from the Father's love while under a fog of Lee's anesthesia, and the reconnection with himself and his ministry. How could we know the Father's far-reaching love in our lives, when the only "safe" love we were entitled to was "love" for Lee and his ministry?
The "feeling of the body" thus had nothing to do with considering how my wife feels about my decisions, or what burdens are weighing on the brothers around me.
Forget about that! Only Anaheim, with its deputy authorities, can possibly know what "
the body is feeling." It's no wonder that I have heard over the years several frustrated sisters, including my own wife, venting out, "
then why don't you marry the brothers!" The unwritten mandate in the recovery was always -- never to love the ones around you more than the brothers in Cleveland and Anaheim. Or was that Anaheim and then Cleveland?
How could we in the Recovery have let Psalms and the book of James fall into such notoriety? Perhaps because James did more to expose the workings at LSM than other books? Witness Lee heralded himself as the consummate MOTA effectively persuading us: "
it has by now (and by me) all been recovered!" If every scripture has been properly "interpreted" by Lee, then how dare we come to the word directly to find something new from God? If only Lee's interpretation can be validated, then how can you trust yourself to read Psalms 3 or 119 without "proper oversight?"
Yes, I am being facetious here, with a dose of sarcasm, but the more I consider what really transpired in the Recovery, the more it reminds me of my childhood education under the tutelage of nuns and priests.