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Originally Posted by Igzy
Well, when someone starts saying that everyone is a harlot except the group he founded then people are going to get indignant. And I don't recall Lee saying the daughter harlots were offshoots which hold to RC stuff. I recall him saying that all Protestant churches were harlots and "free groups" were the fornicating daughters of Moab. But his group was the pure and spotless Bride. Well, how convenient.
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Complete quotations with citations, please. I've evidenced what the footnote clearly states. If you don't recall it, then you weren't paying attention.
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If Lee had said something like "we all are harlots" or "we all have been harlots from time to time" then maybe people would have listened. But he said "you're a harlot and I'm not." Who is going to listen to that? Self-righteousness is not a convincing platform from which to persuade skeptics. It usually just makes people want to tell you to stick it.
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Untrue. If a person - any person - interpreted the verse and said, "these are the harlots," and then "here's how we can avoid being the harlots," then people may or may not listen, depending upon how they are apt to receive the message. The simple fact of the matter is that "God hates our religion." Both Nee and Lee were unapologetic about saying so in a variety of ways. Some of those ways offended popular Christianity, so that made them "cult leaders." How long did it finally take for "popular Christianity" to see the error of their ways and acknowledge the valid point these two brothers had? More then 30 years.