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Originally Posted by MacDuff
There can be only two possibilities. Either Witness Lee and the LC interpreted the 1 Cor account as meaning something different than what is literally apparent, or they didn't consider those they were suing to be Christians. And if the latter is true, anyone on this forum that understands the lawsuits of the LC as being against Scripture must be considered as unchristian as those they sued. Are all who disagree with what the LC did in regard to Lawsuits considered unchristian or non-Christian by the LC? Since this forum and the Berean forum are composed mostly of members who take a stance against Lee, have they too been subjected to threats of Lawsuit?
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Actually, I was in the LC in the days of "The Mindbenders." I heard Lee's repeated "justification" for the lawsuits. Lee alluded to Paul appealing to Caesar for redress from the Jews who were after him. That was Lee's stated "justification" of filing those law suits.
Also, in those days (the early 80's), I also read the entire deposition which was taken of Lee in the Mindbenders lawsuit. Even though I was a "committed" member of the LC at that time (and had been for well over a decade), I couldn't believe what I was reading! Lee perjured himself repeatedly in that lawsuit. He also repeatedly pled that he was an old man who couldn't remember much (when he didn't want to answer some pointed questions. However, those of us who knew Lee knew how much he prided himself of his keen memory and mind for details. The whole deposition portrayed a man completely antithetical to the one all of us in the LC knew. In fact, I could have pointed the lawyers to taped ministry messages (by Lee) that completely contridicted what Lee was telling those guys under oath!