Can you dismiss WL's ministry because of his sins?

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One follow-up. My last post made some sweeping statements. For anyone who is incensed at them, rather than trying to dismantle them as a unit, let's turn to the teachings and the practices one-by-one and see how they fare. I will concede that I cannot prove my generalities in a single reply. But that does not make it invalid. It just makes the proof difficult.

And it has been happening here and on the old BARM for several years. We have discussed many of the doctrines; "ground of locality," "God's economy" (both the teaching and the book), the Trinity, the definition of soul and spirit, Spiritual Authority (Authority and Submission), elders, apostles, abiding v obedience, works v dispensing. The list goes on.

One thread was about teachings of Lee's that someone really liked. So many of them seemed to start with virtual dismissal of the actual words of the underlying scripture due to an over lay of "God's economy." Another thread covered the places where Lee altered readings and understandings in a manner that altered the meaning of scripture (under the title "The Leaven of Lee" or something like that).

We have discovered that even Nee openly restated scripture to his liking and no one batted an eye.

So if you want to discover the Lee (and possibly Nee) that evidences a disconnect from God rather than some special connection, we should pick a topic and start discussing it.

And as I so often will state, Nee and Lee are not authorities for this purpose. We can read what they say. But it is not true until it is discovered to be true because it accurately aligns with the scripture or with standard understandings of scripture. I would even go so far as to suggest that Brethren teachings should be considered suspect because, at some level, they did no better than Nee and Lee. Even to the point of similar exclusivity.