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Originally Posted by JJ
OK guys, thanks for pouring the cold water 
You're right about proving the negative. I don't think my post proved a thing about the title, I did learn explicit reasons Jesus came and is coming again, and that was cool.
JJ |
Hopefully my last post didn't come across the wrong way. It's always good to have a solid understanding of why Jesus came, so that we know when someone is making unsubstantiated claims. The thing about unsubstantiated claims is that they seem enticing, otherwise who would buy into it in the first place?
Lee's teachings have fooled thousands upon thousands. It's not that he necessarily "proved" anything that he taught, he just told people what they wanted to hear. I think that the following verses accurately characterizes who Lee was as a teacher:
2 Tim 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables
Notice how I emphasized
according to their own desires. In many ways, people's affinity for certain teachings is inexplicable. Deification would be laughable to most, and irrelevant, except for the fact that some of us once thought it to be a solid teaching. So many other things that WL taught are also just plain nonsense. So why did we once follow such teachings? I really don't know. What I do know is that the Bible is what sets us straight. It is then ironic that it would be de-empasized in the LC, unless accompanied with WL's commentary.