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Originally Posted by Ohio
Everone's "individuality" had to be renounced except for Lee.
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It's an odd notion, isn't it, that walking the earth was one 'spiritual giant' whose every utterance was manna from God, untainted by the fallen human soul. WL's word was equivalent to God's will, expressed in real time. And now its strange corrolary, that the age of giants is over and now it's the 'age of small potatoes'.
At least Luther and Wesley, when they had broken off the Mother Church and begun their own fellowships, never did a 180 degree turn and declared that thenceforth the church leadership was to be sacrosanct on the level of God Almighty Himself.
And that brings to mind the verse by Paul in 2 Cor 2:5, that "we do not preach ourselves." The personality cult ministries do nothing, in spite of their protestations to the contrary, but preach themselves.