Putting to Test the Recovery Version

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Originally Posted by testallthings

I was not offended by your remarks. Actually it is I who don't want to offend you by my future post. I am sure you see things in another way because you read mainly books by writer closed to the Open Brethren and I read those written by the Close Brethren. I am taking my time, going through things I read in the past and things I didn't read in the past, and considering of including a little study on W. Lee most aberrant teaching concerning the humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ. On this point I am really sad and outraged. On other points I could really be more lenient, considering them just different views, but if anyone mars the blessed Person of Christ he would be treated accordingly.

TestAllThings I was a supporter of Lee and Darby for 3 decades. I am not a biased and ignorant bystander on this subject. I studied both sides of the story when it comes to the Brethren and the Recovery. Many of the linked articles which you have posted I have already read 10 years ago when I researched the first Brethren split in depth. On my shelf I still have marked up copies of these articles with comments in the margins. If you only read the Exclusive side of events, then you will never know what really happened. That is why I mentioned in brief what occurred among some of the senior exclusives in 1866.

And, by the way, I don't think you should link anything by Wm. Kelly. Have you never read that the Darby exclusives dumped Kelly just before Darby died? Anyways, Stem is an exclusive publisher no different from LSM, DCP, and afaithfulword.org. You will never find an accurate account of history from any of them. For those contemporary readers who have waded through some of the dissembling vitriol which has filled the archives at afaithfulword.org during the quarantine of TC and the GLA, you will find these articles to be in the same vein.

Let's be honest here. It is a fact that most of the Brethren scholars ended up in the exclusive camp. But just because they were prolific, knowledgeable writers, does not mean they were more mature or spiritual than their "open" counterparts. For years I tried unsuccessfully to find some writings by Henry Craik, Muller's partner in Bethesda. He was a true scholar, but the open brethren just did not archive their writings as the exclusives did.