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Originally Posted by aron
But where does Paul write something like, "The promises of faithfulness, endurance, and obedience in Scriptures were vain, because all men are sinners"? I don't see this kind of reception by Paul, or anywhere in the NT. So what gave WL the temerity to put forth such a platform? And please note that this was not a small side issue. In Psalm 1 WL demarcates the existence of "natural" OT scripture, and proceeds to gut the Psalms. The large majority of them are either called "natural" or are ignored.
The only thing that I can think of is that WL's status as "today's oracle" gave him the boldness to depart from the NT's use of Psalms so radically. He could go where none had gone, because he was a receptacle of the revelation of God. Even when this so-called revelation was to tell us that Scripture itself lacked revelation.
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This is surely a major part of his delusion. But too often we think that he only came to this conclusion starting somewhere in the mid-late 70s. Or in the mid-late 80s. Or in the 90s.
I submit that he fully believed in the teaching and position of "today's oracle" and what we came to know of as the MOTA all the way back to Nee's teaching of these things in the late 40s. And once Nee was imprisoned and Lee had fled to Taiwan, he began to act as if he was exactly that - the in challengeable, Oracle of God in our midst.
(And the fact that the other disciples of Nee, like Kwang (sp?), say nothing about Lee is that despite the fact that they are not submitting to Lee, they are under the hold of two things — a culture of reverence for those who are your elders, and a teaching that created "the one.")
Oh, we did not see that at first in the US. He had to build us up to that teaching. It took some time. But for every teaching that we consider positive that we learned from Lee, there was a worm in it because it was part of the system he used to capture us to be the believers in the MOTA.
(I will also submit that Lee might have been waiting to take full command on the title until it was clear that Nee had died.)
This is the problem with Lee. It is a system that used truth to carry water for lies. And every time that we who think we know the difference comment positively on what we got from the LRC (no matter how true it is to make those comments) we reinforce the lies that tag along for the ride. And it is those who have not seen through the lies who are harmed.