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Originally Posted by Ohio
This, of course, diverges somewhat from your topic at hand, Igzy, but it emphasizes the LC mentality, that if Nee and Lee were perfect, then all their teachings were perfect, and even a caveman could use these teachings to raise up elders in the LC's.
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But if they weren't perfect, then they were just ministers whose teaching may or may not be beneficial, just like all the other ministers.
That is why it is okay, and in fact needed, to know and even discuss the imperfections, some gross, of even those Christians we might consider "great servants." Otherwise, given human nature, we would be tempted to succumb to damaging reverence for flawed men, and feel compelled to swallow the camels of bad teachings.
The flip side is this: Any party which tries to sell some person as the greatest minister of the age, or the sole authority, or the one we all need to defer to above all others, has an agenda other than God's. They might not think they do, but they do. For all their claims about being for the eternal purpose of God, the LC is really about something else. They just need to wake up to that fact.