Putting to Test the Recovery Version

[OBW]

This example of the footnote concerning Peter's mother-in-law is representative a lot of Lee's use of scripture. There is a focal verse which is being effectively ignored or reinterpreted. It is surrounded by a bunch of verses that are correctly commented on but have nothing to do with the issue in the focal verse. And I might add that often the verses which are used properly are designed to either get everyone on a "Amen! Hallelujah!" roll, or at least noting how many verses Lee references properly, after which he can say almost anything and most will simply accept it as yet one more correct statement without a thought, or be fully caught up in the Hallelujahs and not even think about it.

Therefore, I think that the quoting of irrelevant verses is often part of a ploy to establish credibility at the moment. Sort of a magician's trick to get you looking at what he wants you to look at so that you will not notice the error that was slipped in and instead just accept the new teaching.

And so many times the points weren't even worthy of making. But I think that is one of the tricks. Make strange point after strange point stick and eventually they won't even balk when it should be blatantly obvious that you have lied to them.