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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Any country where superstition abounds that could happen.
I know that catholic and evangelical efforts in india and similar superstitious places have resulted in many accepting Christ..but just as another one of the hundred gods they already have.
Yet i would not say it was spawned by those efforts. That is the unfortunate result when preaching in a superstitious country.
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But weren't Watchman Nee and Witness Lee supposed to be free from bias, self-interest and ignorance? Whatever happened to the "virgin soil" of China? And why is it that the yardstick suddenly changes when we measure the ministers of the age, versus the society they came from?
I see a lot of sublimated superstition in the ministries of both men. It is not as blatant as elsewhere, so it's doubly dangerous. Certain things are emphasized, even obsessively so. Certain things are ignored, or waved off. Bias, ignorance and self-interest - just like the rest of us suffer from.
And this trait, when writ large upon the populace, shows up in aberrant group practices. Certainly it's a contributing factor to the emergence & spread of the Chinese pseudo-Christian cults. Likewise, in the excesses of the aberrant spin-offs we can see the carefully hidden imbalances of the source. The EL and Changshou Shouters and the rest of the deviant sects merely amplified what they were given by the parent ministry. They took it to the next logical step. And in the variegated fruit, the tendencies (ignorance and superstition) of the tree are more clearly seen.