[Freedom]

Originally Posted by aron

Lee's only scriptural appeal here was to the "drunken Noah" case in Genesis (not sure where did Jesus or Paul reference "drunken Noah" as superseding NT righteousness?), to the elders' "debt" and to the elders "feeling" and "real sensation". Their culturally-based feeling of shame as the Top Dog fell, was allowed to over-ride clear dictates of NT scripture. And the pentacostal, sensual-based church experience - "How did you feel" - suborning the plain words of scripture abets the socially-driven imperative.

It's funny how WL could teach that we shouldn't trust in our feelings, yet when certain situations happened, he took the opposite stance. WL asking people about their "inner feeling" is completely absurd. It goes without saying that after these elders had felt 'betrayed' by Nee, so they would have felt worse off than before. So of course they felt things weren't going so well. Basically, WL used a type of false attribution to keep these elders from criticizing Nee.