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Originally Posted by aron
J: “I was reading the biography of Watchman Nee by Witness Lee. In it, Lee shows how Nee was helped by Madame Guyon, on the inner life, and how Nee's “Spiritual Man” was heavily indebted to Jessie Penn-Lewis’ “War on the Saints”, and how Mary McDonough’s “Three Parts of Man” influenced his thinking (and later, Lee’s). Plus Nee credited Emily Fishbacher on the charismatic experience. Not to mention ME Barber teaching him all those years! (And Dora Yu, Peace Wang, Ruth Lee &c). Now, I'm wondering: if the ministries of all these women were obviously so instrumental in Nee’s spiritual development, why does the 'recovery' church he founded not allow women to teach? It seems that he was either illegitimately instructed by women, or his 'recovery' group is illegitimately suppressing valid and valuable women's ministries today. I don't see how one can simultaneously have it both ways here. What do you think?”
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You learn something new every day!! Thank you-this example especially. I'm going to read about it and hope to one day (God willing) use an example like this if the situation comes up. I used to think of the LC like a two sided coin of bad practices (one side) and spiritual abuse (on the other)...
Now I'm seeing it more like a multi-sided dice of all kinds of misleading deceptions.
These concepts were clearly not WN or WL's alone. But even if they were, they are just theories, correct?
I'm not sure what the "lingo" is with Biblical doctrine- so I'm just comparing to scientific equivalents....
The fact that WN or WL claims to KNOW the truth about all the debated doctrines of the Bible is a huge red flag for me.
I would love to find a group that teaches the possible THEORIES with certain issues-aside from the main issues of the faith. A group that teaches the Biblical interpretations as a whole, then lets you decide for yourself. That's what we all deserve to have. It seems so simple, but its not!