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Originally Posted by Ohio
Yes, do read that article.
It's a sham.
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The idea of one specially-chosen human vessel for God's current speaking or leading or 'up-to-date truth' was entirely based on self-serving human logic, not on either scripture nor common Christian experience. It's a scam, perpetrated upon the body of believers, to trap a few of the weak and gullible ones.
It flies against the repeated counsel of scripture: Proverbs says three times that in many advisors is prudence, wisdom, success, and safety. By stark contrast, in the LSM & LC all revelation supposedly comes from one vessel, and if that vessel fails, there's no safeguard.
Even the pope has a college of cardinals! Look at the fellows in this "one unique revelation and one chosen revelatory vessel per age" idea: the Unification Church, the Rastafarians, the Mormons etc. Not good company.
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Originally Posted by askseek
Plus there are other systems out there, both religious and secular, with similarities to the LC system. So it's also helpful for navigating these land mines.
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Not to mention Eastern Lightning, Three Grades of Servants, etc.
Now, Jesus was arguably the model for the benign despot - nobody taught Jesus - Jesus taught everyone else. But the critical difference between Jesus and Paul, Luther, Darby, and Nee and Lee (and any of us) is that Jesus lived a sinless life, placed that perfect life on the cross for our sins, and rose three days later to eternal reign and glory. That didn't happen to Paul, Luther, Darby, or Nee. Or Sun Myung-Moon or Haile Selassie, for that matter.
No; the 'uncovered truths' of Nee and later Lee were in retrospect entirely ad hoc and meant to fit whatever the days' exigencies were. Look at the role women, for example: Dora Yu was a 'lionness' of the Little Flock but would have no place in the Recovery today. Why? Because she was expedient. Her value came and went. The only enduring 'truth' in women's functioning was toward the acquisition of temporal human power. She was useful, an used, but once the Foreigners were removed, she was discarded. Along with Peace Wang, Ruth Lee etc. Similarly, Mary MacDonough was used to 'recover the three parts of man' but wouldn't be able to give a message on it today.
http://www.tripartiteman.org/historical/mcdonough.html
Not to mention Jessie Penn-Lewis, Madame Guyon, and so forth. None of them would get an inch of space today. But they were at one point useful for the Cause.
Likewise, Leland Wang was used and discarded. Wang was the elder brother that Nee famously chafed under, whilst both were in Barber's tutelage. Then Wang bought the hall used for the first independent SCA gatherings. Once Nee removed him, on perceived doctrinal differences, Nee suddenly 'recovered the truth' of Authority and Submission. Nice timing. Once Nee was Top Dog, he codified it with supposed revelation.
Then Lee lifted Nee up as the singular "Seer of the Divine Revelation", and himself as "closest co-worker", which meant he was next in line as Guru. The whole thing is a self-serving sham.