[OBW]

To me, the issues being discussed are not really what the parable of the tares is talking about. I think you are correct that it is referring to the general inability for us to determine whether someone is or is not a believer in Christ. We may think we know, but we really don't.

But the purpose of viewing these videos (or hearing the audio from them) is not to determine anyone's eternal status. It is to determine whether certain ones are properly understanding and preaching the word of truth and are righteously leading the flocks they have been entrusted with. And based on that determination, are they qualified to be deciding what is and is not sound teaching. And based on my reading of the calf that arose from the molten material that was the unholy fire of this elders meeting — The Fermentation of the Present Rebellion — I would argue that if Lee and his primary enablers were ever qualified, by that time they had lost their teaching license.

Not sure what to say about the lesser elders that had no real idea what it was all about.

I think that the