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In Witness Lee's church, we presumed ourselves beyond all of that. Fallen humankind's social arrangements never touched us! So we never questioned, and never considered, even when things got weirder and weirder, as gaps between individual perception and social consensus widened themselves.
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And in the same way, when only one out of 10 non-LRC scholars actually takes a position similar to Lee (even if only slightly similar) I believe that it is sufficient to generally dismiss the one because those who disagree have established themselves as sound, reasoned, and solid Christians.
No, numbers, or a majority, do not define God or scripture. But it is the counsel, not the individual, that seems to ultimately be able to really get a feeling from the Spirit. It started with that counsel in Jerusalem. Neither Paul nor the Judaisers simply got their way. It was the combined sense of the group that ruled. I am not discounting the Spirit's participation. Rather noting that it was in the participation with many, and not just one, that the conclusion arose. That tends to put the outliers in question.
Does that mean that I do not have any questions relating to where the mainstream of Christianity is going? Not at all. But the errors I think I see are not related to core of the faith. Rather to the emphasis in the meaning of "calling" for the "average" Christian. And that is a different topic.