Attending Different Churches: Divisive attitudes

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Originally Posted by Ohio

Here LSMers equivocate. Officially and doctrinally they will assert that Lee was an oracle of God, a spokesperson for God, one who speaks for God to His People. Privately, internally, they believe Lee alone and Lee uniquely spoke for God, THE Minister of the Age etc., and any other minister, not teaching Lee's own words, is illegitimate.

Yes, I've definitely seen and heard that!

What I really was after is the use of "oracle" = "a person" or "spokeperson", when it seems to me that Biblically, "oracle" = "the words" or "the speaking". This allows for the cessation of the following of a man if what he is speaking is not of, or is no longer of, God. A person is not the oracle, what he is speaking is. This also removes the infallibility aspect......if someone is an oracle, then how can anything they speak be wrong? But if a man is speaking the oracles of God (i.e. the words of God), then when he is wrong he is simply not speaking the oracles of God.

If we understand a word properly then we can use it correctly. It also removes the grandiose air of oracular mystique around W. Lee.

Does that make sense? Just thinking out loud. I'm just throwing it out there to see how others understand it.