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Originally Posted by Ohio
Here is a post from another thread which is just one example why I say that Lee changed ...
This is why nearly all the LC saints I know would not agree with this site. UntoHim pukes every time I mention this, but they will not visit this site because some posters here refuse to acknowledge that Lee was once an anointed minister of the word.
OK, I'm already ducking.  |
And in 1981, I think we were still somewhere in or shortly after the lawsuits in which one of the things that Lee had to combat was that everyone simply took his word on everything.
But recall that even Nee's teaching about deputy authority never said "I am the top dog." He always dodged around it. And so did Lee. For some time he refused the title of anything like minister of the age. But he declared that there was a ministry of the age. And made indirect references to the one who brought the ministry.
Too much like those "speak of yourself in third person" athletes like Dion Sanders. "Now if a Deon Sanders
blah blah blah . . . . "
I'm sorry, but if his goal was to become so much, he couldn't declare it too quickly. Maybe some were ready to crown him MOTA in 1975. But it wouldn't fly then. Nor in 1981. But it would come. His position at the top of the spiritual authority chain would be established so that eventually everyone would accept that if he said it, it just had to be true. Therefore, saying "Bro Lee said" would then be OK.
But not when the world through a court was looking inside.
Given the history of his mentor (Spiritual Authority) and his own history in Taiwan prior to being in the U.S., it is hard to see this as little more than the gradual turning up of the heat until he could openly say he liked being exalted.
Given the depth or error in his teachings long prior to 1981, I have a hard time with any claim to "anointed minister of the word" (unless the word referred to was really just his).