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Originally Posted by Evangelical
But if Aron means that LSM is training elders and sending them to China and starting these cults, that is a different thing!
Maybe Aron or even yourself if you know, could explain exactly what "LSM spawning cults" actually means.
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The literature showed LSM operatives going hard into China in the '80s after that country 'opened' to the west. In the mid-'90s WL publicly claimed 15 to 20 million shouters affiliated with his ministry. A number of cults came out of the same shouters; not merely cults as defined by PRC government but as defined by Christian consensus (Lord Changshou sect, EL, etc).
Am I reading too much causality between the lines here? Perhaps. But when I look at their operations, I see the same hallmarks of WL and the LSM, just like the DYL spin-off in Brasil: secrecy, paranoia, centralised control, isolationism, cheap sloganeering.
Or do we think Baptists would have gone into China proclaiming, "The age of the word is over; it's the age of the spirit"? I saw videos smuggled out where they repetitively shouted WL's theological statements. "God became man to make man God/Untraceable economy" - What happens when the meeting's focus turns from the word of God, to whatever the Ascended Master cooked up today?
This is of course a subjective assessment. It may be as Chris Wilde said, that LSM had nothing to do with the chaos on the mainland ten years after WL passed.