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Originally Posted by Awoken

Well, maybe I'm just being provocative, but Lee wasn't the first person to throw James under the bus for the sake of doctrine. http://twelvetribes.org/articles/epistle-of-straw

No. Lee was not the first. But he had his reasons to like that position, and it related to his inability to be considered to have any real faith under James' definitions.

Besides, taking a less well-traveled position was so often his calling card. The more out-of-sync he and his followers are/were with the rest of Christianity, the harder it would be for any of them to abandon ship since they would be steeped in marginal theology.