Quote:
Originally Posted by Boxjobox
how there should be one speaking according to the thoughts of Jinping, everyone must submit to the one man plan
|
This is the "oneness" of Babel: rigid, external, and enforced. Akin to "Unless you have the mark of the beast, you cannot buy or sell"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boxjobox
Totalitarian actions are not good in countries or Christian gatherings.
|
Where in the LC model is the "much discussion" of the Acts 15 gathering (v.7)? No where. Where is the "many counselors" of Proverbs 15:22 and 11:14? No where. Instead it is totalitarian rule by fiat.
The timeline suggests that from 1962-72, Witness Lee was softened by his previous failures in the East and didn't assert such primacy. The Local Churches were quite local, spontaneous, and autonomous. Migrations, pray-reading, song compositions, and gospel preaching were all "organic", not top-down affairs. But eventually the lure was too great: Daystar was birthed; failure only brought greater insistence of control.
Notice that in these systems disembodied abstractions become the keys to control. They can be manipulated to mean whatever leadership wants today. Get everyone to agree on some "crucial principle", then do whatever you want to make this principle concretised. But the principle forever remains abstract and unrealisable, even under the lash of compulsion.