God's economy vs Deputy authority

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ZNP, thank you for posting this.

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

5. At the time of construction it was always presented that LSM was now going to have two centers in the US. But in hindsight I wonder how much financial sense such an investment made? However, if you factor in the idea that WL and PL had invested in Irving as a “worst case” plan then it does make more sense. Surely they couldn’t have anticipated how it ultimately turned out.

I definitely heard that Irving was chosen because the leadership there was much more favorable to WL, especially during the turbulent times of the late 70's. (TC and Cleveland would have loved to have received the same opportunity.) The property was sold to the church for tax advantages, knowing that DFW was planning a runway directly over the property.

Taipei went sour. Elden hall went sour. Anaheim went sour. Needed a "new start" for the ministry.

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

6. KR is a Phd and has a very good education, I spent several years with him at Rice. I don’t believe it is realistic to assume that his scholarship is really as sloppy as it would have to be for the whitewash he worked on to have been innocent. Either he is a fool or was involved in a coverup. Based on my experience I would be much more inclined to believe that KR felt the saints were foolish enough that he could pull off the whitewash than to believe that this book accurately depicts his scholarship. Why would he do that, well, his major was perfectly aligned with working on a translation of the Bible. There are not many jobs in that area and if this is what it would take to get this job, as someone who spent several years with him in Houston, I am sorry to say that I would not put it past him.

I heard that KR was living in Greece to learn the language, and then was recalled by Texas leaders to help with the translation of the recovery version. KR later explained to us that during the Life Study era, JI's translation work lacked continuity from book to book of the New Test. I always felt that KR's work added nothing to the translation, and in fact was much less readable. It's just sickening to think that his motivation for smearing JI's name was simply to take his job and move up the ladder, but these kinds of things happen every day, just not in the kingdom of God.

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

7. I see absolutely no basis for EM to be sent to Anaheim at a time of serious upheaval other than that he was a classic yes man, and would rubber stamp anything he was told to. The only reason for EM to be chosen for this role is that BP and RG chose him, there is no other explanation I can see. His apology to PL is absolutely repugnant.

If ever there was a pom-pom cheerleader of the ministry, it was he. Someone once counted 33x in one training meeting in which EM shamelessly invoked the glorious name of WL after he passed away.

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

8. RG and BP engineered a written consecration to the ministry by the elders.

To say this was done only to brown nose WL would be short-sighted. Based on others' accounts, signatures were coerced in order to bring all leaders under submission to LSM. It was a strategic power move.