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Originally Posted by Igzy
Folks, this is what is know as a Non Sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow").
Note how Cassidy casually segues from the valid fact of God raising up workers (who else would raise them up?) and co-opts that to imply validity of the idea of a "minister of the age." But, the fact that God raises up workers in no way validates the idea of a minister of the age! Cassidy all too often employs this kind of invalid argumentation.
Minister of the age is just not biblical. It is as much a man-made construct as apostolic succession.
The proof that the BBs and LSM hold to apostolic succession is how they got from "Brother Lee" to "Brother We" (the BBs). Do any of them have the credentials of an apostle? Hardly. Their leading credential is that they worked with and were approved by Lee. THAT is the essense of succession.
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Also it violates several Biblical principles.
1. Every member of the Body is important. If this is true how could you have a single man out of hundreds of millions, even billiions of Christians who is "the" minister of the age.
2. The body has many ministries. Again, how could one be considered "the" ministry. Perhaps if the heart stops working you die, well that is also true of the Liver. Maybe you can lose one lung and still live, so you could argue that lungs and kidney's are less critical, but that seems contrary to the truth, perhaps we have two because they are more critical. And doesn't it depend, if you lost a hand that would be critical to a piano player, but not deadly.
3. The Lord said if you want to be "great" in the kingdom you needed to be "servant to all". It is hard for me to buy that a leader of a small exclusive sect could argue that he was "servant of all".
4. When asked by some to sit on his right hand he asked can you "drink the cup that I am going to drink and be baptized with the baptism that I am going to be baptized with?" Yet when I suggested that Witness Lee be judged with the same judgement as Paul I was told "that is silly" by those who claim he is the MOTA. That tells me even the most strident supporters know it is silly to think he was the MOTA.