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Originally Posted by Curious
‘Shepherding Words’, subtitle ‘Covering, not Covering Up’.
Opening statement:
‘By misrepresenting Witness Lee’s teaching concerning Noah and his three sons, some have falsely claimed that he justified covering up gross sins, particularly if the sinning one occupies a position of authority. Any who appeal to his teaching on Noah and his sons to justify covering up gross sins are abusing his ministry.’
This is an extremely telling opening statement. Two things here:
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2. Instead, they do the above, they suggest that Witness lee is the one being abused, or at least his teachings are. This detail is something to take careful note of, its how abusers flip the tables and confuse their victims, as over-empathising with other’s pain is an easy trip-up for an abuse victim. In place of acknowledgement, they are calling the victim card on themselves and this I call a deliberate psychological trick, and a sinister one. They could’ve just said ‘misinterpreting his ministry’, but they choose the loaded word ‘abuse’.
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Ok ‘shepherding words’, give us an example of where you were wrong about something and you resolved it in all the ways you describe on your site. And provide an independent person to verify that it happened as you say. You claim you don’t believe you are infallible, give us an example where you made a mistake and learned something useful through it….citing lots of principles doesn’t tell us you necessarily put them into practice.
Wounded people: watch out for ways abusers turn the tables and present themselves as the victims instead.
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This was a great catch,
Curious. The danger of abusers claiming their victims are doing the abusing cannot be overstated.
I thought it was completely ridiculous that the example the co-workers gave of Nee and Lee not being infallible was some disagreement over the identity of the two witnesses in Revelation 11......hardly a huge point in our daily Christian life.
Regarding the Noah story, what was Nee accused of between 1942 and 1948? Wasn't it a ....... gross sin?