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Originally Posted by Igzy
I personally don't believe Lee was a charlatan. I believe he was delusional. He really believed his own PR. He really thought he was the ultimate spiritual authority on earth at the time. And he acted accordingly. Now he was monumentally deceived. But he wasn't purely cynical. He was misled by his own delusion of power. Whatever contradictions that produced he rationalized away. The end justified the means. After all, he was the MOTA, right?
You don't have to be completely evil for God to be against you for your false visions.
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Part of it was ignorance combined with culture/superstition. According to cultural concepts of Nee & Lee, there HAD to be an untouchable BMOC on top of the heap. That was just how it works. So they manufactured the MOTA doctrine, a flimsy conceptual reed if there ever was one.
And Jesus knew all about it, already. He said, "That's the way things are with the Gentiles, but that should not be that way with you."
But, what does Jesus know, anyway? Culture uber alles.
Let me put it differently: native culture, unexamined, allowed a charlatan to look in the mirror and tell himself that he was serving God. It was a sort of fig leaf to cover the natural man from the bright rays of the sun.
That's just the way it is - the Normal Christian Church Life.