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Originally Posted by HERn
It seems that only crazies like David Koresh, Sun Yun Moon, Jim Jones, and many others play this kind of card. Why would anyone (like Lee, Née, the blindeds) want to be associated with that kind of cultish practice?
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I was recently reading the "Life Study of John" online. Chapter 23, section 2. Titled: "Frustration of Human Opinions". Not sure what was in the rest of the chapter, but according to what I could see, the main point to be learned from the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead was not to have opinions. That's it, folks - the true "intrinsic significance" of the gospel record is for us to "drop our concepts" and follow God's DA without question. No wonder they are called a cult.
http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?n
WL might have been able to siphon off thousands or even tens of thousands of seeking ones during the Jesus Movement of the seventies, to become his unquestioning acolytes. But I really doubt this kind of teaching is going to prevail, in the long term. It's both anti-God and anti-human. It turns us away from God to a self-appointed "deputy", and denies us our essential humanness, to try, to fail, to see, to learn, to grow. Just be "absolutely identical" with God's so-called oracle.
At the bottom of the page it says not to copy these "spiritual riches", so I'll merely quote one point WL made.
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Martha and Mary considered that the Lord should have come immediately. This was their opinion. But the Lord never acts on the basis of anyone's opinion; He always acts according to His own will.
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To me this is flat-out wrong. The gospel record repeatedly said that the Lord didn't act according to His will, but rather was completely submissive to the will of the Father in heaven. And the epistles affirmed this. I could cite a half-dozen verses, or more. This is a basic tenet of the Christian faith, no? How could WL have missed this essential point?
p.s. There's nothing wrong with letting go of our opinions. It's arguably a good thing. But to make that the focal point of the gospel message is extremely myopic at best.