Major Errors of Witness Lee’s Teaching

[Cal]

Originally Posted by aron

I write a lot, but also agree with the "don't overthink it" school. I write because I enjoy writing, not because I alone have the truth and I'm endeavouring to bludgeon a recalcitrant world into submission.

Me, too. I think and write because I enjoy the experience, not because I think I'm an authority. Anyone has the right to disagree with me. I've found if I feel desperate to defend what I believe then I probably don't believe it as strongly as I think.

Originally Posted by aron

The Jesus that Peter saw every day, to me beats the "Christ who became" this and that via Lee's mental machinations. But that's just my subjective enjoyment. Lee had his, I have mine.

Regarding Peter and Lee. I was just reading something on the rise of the papacy. In a section entitled, "The Plenitude of Papal Power" (plenitude means fullness) it reads:

Apologists for the papacy supported its claims by an appeal to the idea of the plenitude of papal power. ... It was argued that in granting Peter the keys of heaven and hell, Christ gave Peter and his successors full jurisdiction over both church and state. Thus it was not possible in this life "to appeal from the pope to God or man." Proponents of this theory went so far as to assert that although the pope might be mistaken, "his error creates right." 1

Sounds eerily like the LC claim about Lee: "Even when he's wrong, he's right."

(No indictment of Peter, nor of your reasonable preference for him over Lee, intended.)

1 A Short History of Christian Thought, Linwood Urban, 1995