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Originally Posted by Meribah
Throughout the years in which I have fellowshipped with various saints, I have been struck by how very much they are just like the Catholics of old. They have their authority figure, the Pope/Lee, and they have the belief that they cannot make it outside of this one particular church. Added to this, they practice excommunication. Just as Catholics had faith in their Church (perhaps even a little bit more than their faith in Christ or a whole lot more than their faith in Christ), you can find the same thinking or belief among the saints. My other actual charge of idolatry-- besides that of WL- against them is worship of the Church itself. Whether they are able to see it or not, they have developed tiers or hierarchy levels between them and the Lord Jesus. The Bible clearly tells us that there is only one mediator between God and man, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. True Christians should accept no other. We in Christ have been set free from these things.
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Maribah, in short, I openly spoke out against Lee being the MOTA. When I finally got nailed by the lead elder, and his crony puppet elders, in the privacy of my own home, I was told that if I wanted to go on in the LC I had to take the lead elder's personality as my own, and if I want to blow my nose I had to ask him which side first (that's a literal quote).
In the process of defending myself I said, "Then Witness Lee is the Pope of the Local Church." The response was, "That's the way of Life. If you want Life then that's the way you have to go on in the LC," personality and nose blowing included.
There was no denial that Lee was the Pope, by the lead elder that was directly appointed by Pope Lee.
And to Aron I say, I guess I would have been fine if I had washed my brain of any and all objections of the infallibility of Witness Lee. There you go : brainwashing.