Which books are in the LSM bibliography?

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Originally Posted by OBW

We are wired to find patterns. Our brains fill in visual and auditory cues and clues constantly. And our minds love to find a pattern. It helped us stay alive when we lived out in tents and noticing wild animals hiding in the bushes was important. Our needs have diminished. But the fill-ins continue. That is why five eye-witnesses to a crime cannot describe [exactly] the same scene. There are similarities (probably the real facts) mixed with what the brain added to complete the picture.

I find the 4 gospels so helpful, because they each fill in parts missing from the others, and the 3 others expose which parts each has "filled in", and perhaps why. (Of course I am generalizing here)

And this is also why "many counselors" from history are so helpful. John Chrystosom, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus; I could name 20 or 30. Do I know them? No; but I know they exist, and I don't presume to have the last word until these "brothers" are counseled, both in primary and in secondary literature.

None of them has the "last word", but they all help fill in the gaps and holes and fuzzy bits. All witnesses are useful, if only to find out what parts we don't agree with.

WL in Elder's Training book 4:

Then the news went out that there was a kind of trend. The saints thought we were going back to the old doctrines and some even came to me and said, “This is good because this shows people that this is not only Witness Lee's writing, but all the writings of Christianity are here.” When I heard this, I immediately made a decision to stop what we had intended to do.

It seems that WL was trying to have it both ways: he wanted to do a thorough grounding in the teachings of the past, but then he decided his readers were not stable so he put and end to it. WL wanted to put in footnotes, but he just couldn't trust the saints.

I guess.