LSM’s Deification Doctrine—Biblical or Blasphemous? Nigel Tomes

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JJ: MOTA concept is a root of evil.


Freedom: A theory of mine is that the teachings of a 'MOTA' and deification go hand in hand. Shortly before focusing on the “high peak” (aka deification), WL made the claim to be the ‘MOTA’.


Terry: In the local churches there's a desire to be unique or have uniqueness. To set aside Lee and his ministry and settle for just Jesus, all uniqueness would be lost.

The very concept of "Recovery," with all its implications, is fraught with dangers. Sure, it sounded so good when we first heard it, but consider the results.

For many of us, the LC meetings ignited or re-ignited our love for Jesus, which of course was wonderful. Immediately thereafter we were instructed that all of Christianity was degraded, and that we alone have left Babylon, like Israel of old. We alone were "recovered" to the proper ground, a recovery which began with the Protestant Reformation. Many gifted men of God were instrumental in those days like Wycliffe, Tyndale, Huss, Luther, Farel, Calvin, Erasmus, Zwingli, etc.

Why did Nee and Lee choose Luther? For me this was a huge factor in the corruption we see in the "Recovery." Why did any man needed to be identified as the beginner of the Lord's Recovery? Should not we have been instructed to only give glory to God, to the Man Jesus, to the moving of the Spirit, for all the great things He has done? In Nee's and Lee's version of church history, as soon as Luther was promoted, and later honored as the first MOTA, the stage props were all in place. Now we simply need to "fill in the blanks" until we arrived at our own version of 20th century MOTAs. How convenient, and how very self-serving.

This distorted view of church history has accomplished the following:

• Pride. Look at Laodicea. We are the best of the best. Exclusivism and elitism. All others are degraded and hopelessly divided. We alone are blessed. We alone are His testimony. Etc.
• MOTA. Deputy Authority. A man on earth who has replaced the pope, but is not the Head of the body either. All God's work, all the Son's speaking, and all the Spirit's moving must flow through him. He alone is without peer, and accountable to no one.
• Heresy. Errors. Teachings replace the Word of God. Novel teachings like deification are extolled as God's up-to-date revelation.