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Originally Posted by awareness

Thanks for your thoughts and questions.

The slogan "One God, One Bishop" meant the bishop in Rome. This is around the turn of the century, circa when the gospel of John and the book of Revelation were written. Clement is writing concerning elders that got kicked to the curb in Corinth. Clement is listed as the bishop, pope, of Rome by Irenaeus and Tertullian holding office from 88 to his death in 99.

He's declaring that the bishop of Rome is the authority of God on the earth, and those that are not obedient or rebel against Rome are/were rebelling against God.

That's what got me kicked to the curb ; me questioning that Lee was the authority of God on the earth. To me, back in circa 1980, that's when Lee fell, long before the Philip scandal, before Ingalls et al.

And from what I've read that's the way Lee thought of himself, and practiced, before coming to America.

That fall of Lee, and likely Nee, was the same as the fall of early Christianity, and it had to do with the authority of God on the earth.

Did Lee know about Clement of Rome? It's touted that he was a big fan of history. Did he get the idea of the authority of God on the earth from there? or did he get it from Nee? Where did Nee get it from? It's touted that he read all the books of Christianity.

Is the authority of God on earth a thing of Christianity? Was Paul the authority of God on the earth? When did this start? Rome was taking power early on, long before Constantine 325ad, at the turn of the century.

I'm positing that that's when Christianity went south. Am I wrong about this?

This is the conclusion I came to long ago, our experiences in the LC were not that strange or unique. Based on the book of James and other NT references WL is not unique, you can see this same error repeatedly throughout church history. WL and WN were false Christ's, they made this the case when they began teaching about MOTA.