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Originally Posted by Ohio
Perhaps WL's most serious source of error was the many exaltations he solicited and sanctioned from his adherents, bordering megalomania. Consider the many superlatives we have heard about him: the acting god on earth, the minister of the age, the last spiritual giant, the oracle of God, today's Paul, etc.
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The exaltations of the ministry and the man were the only way to cover for the mess he made of scripture. If only he'd been subject to the same critiques he subjected everyone else to, something good could have been salvaged.
None of us have the final insight that rules all others. The NT made that clear: the disciples were continually exposed as being several steps behind the Lord. That path of humility and open-ness was expected to continue, post-resurrection, and largely has. "Let each consider himself or herself less than the rest". That is safe counsel to each, and protection to the group.
But some like to be first, a la Diotrephes. They become the Untouchables. Witness Lee was clearly one, and that his ministry ran afoul of scripture and had to suborn scripture to maintain coherence should itself be sufficient warning.