Once again, the Quote button is not working on this particular post, those it has on others.
A few posts back, testallthings said:
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I would like to voice my opinion (just take it as simply as that) on the matter. It seems to me that in most cases when a person or an angel makes a mistake, there is usually a rebuke made by God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), by angels, and/or by man (prophet, man of God, seer, apostle....). Examples abounds in the Old and New Testament as well. So, if there is not explicit condemnation regarding a supposed mistake, I am not prone to strongly affirm that someone were mistaken.
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I am happy to take this as just that, his opinion. And I find little wrong with it, except to note that it should include some kind of restriction to its application to those actions, events, etc., that are recorded in scripture, not all mistakes made by man. But I think that is what he meant.
To me the real problem with so many of the footnotes of the nature that have been mentioned here are that they are so often taking a marginal or less favored position (or unique altogether) with little more than the statement that it is so. That is just too "Lee." And why did he do that? We really don't know. But it is notable that the result was that we, his followers, were sure that we had better understanding of scripture because we were sure that Lee's interpretations were spiritually superior to all others. Therefore, since only small segments of Christianity agreed on various such positions as stated in the footnotes, we were sure that we were better than all those other Christian groups.
Did Lee really believe what he wrote? Difficult to see is the mind of a dead man. But either way the result was the same. We had our own little "Lee, to whom shall we go? You have the words of Ministry."
(I feel a song coming on . . .
Lee, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of ministry
And we believe that you are
the Minister of the Age
)
Not sure of the name of the original song, but I'm sure some of you have heard it. Maybe something like "You Only."