Are you Disgusted Yet with Screamers?

A friend tells me about Gold Acacia's condition:

Gold Acacia is "God-man" at Worthy Boards (contact - george@worthyboards.com).  I am banned from Worthy Boards because the lsm/lc member "God-man" has prevented my voice from being heard. I understand that the lsm/lc are coyly attempting to propagate their teachings on this forum one by one. The lsm/lc thinks they are worthy, so one might expect them go after a name like Worthy Boards. The youth forum is private, and as you know the lsm/lc system aggressively goes after the youth and colleges.

I read in Hosea 5.2 of a place called Acacia which is used in this context, "You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia", and in footnotes it says Hebrew for Acacia is Shittim, the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. "Shit" is characteristic of Gold Acacia, and perhaps "gold" is his idol also. By looking at a map we see Abel-shittim is on the other side of the Jordan river, nearer to Assyria. Just some interesting observations. I can see why Gold Acacia has since changed his name to God-man, yet he is still not God, but only a man and not a man of God.

Gold Acacia doesn't know his Local Church history at all. First of all his premise in defending the Local Church history is that Lee & cohorts are the one ministry and that anyone who disagrees with Lee and his writings [read: paper pope] is not "one with THE ministry". They label anyone who disagrees with Lee as "rebellious". Who said they are rebellious? Lee? Gold Acacia? Who?

Let me quote from a Forward of a book by John So [a supposed "rebellious" person] titled: "I Myself Also Am A Man":

"I visited Manila in early October of 1994. Some very concerned young people from the church in Pasay City, Metro Manila, came to see me. Among them was a young brother who had participated in a special young people's training [LSM] training in Metro Manila. At the training they were strongly compelled to raise up their hands and declare loudly and repeatedly, 'Hallelujah, I am a baby God, I am a holy God, I am God!' This particular young man refused to make such a declaration and was consequently dismissed from the training for being 'rebellious'. Some of these trainees also attended the Sunday morning meeting at the church in Pasay City, and there they shouted that they were Gods. I was told that they cited Psalm 82:6, John 10:34-36, and also 1 John 3:2 in order to convince others that such proclamations were fully scriptural. In the course of our fellowship, these young believers earnestly requested that I write a paper on these verses to help others to be clear regarding the context of these scriptures." Scary stuff!

The rest of the paper is a short explanation of the correct context of these texts, which, of course, the LSM and Local Church of Witness Lee take completely out of context to "support" their heresy. But to me the most important part of this Forward is how telling it is about the LSM and Local Church of Witness Lee. First the make young people stand up and declare heresy, and when he refused they dismiss him calling him "rebellious". This is how these people operate.

If anyone has this paper, please email it to me. It would make a wonderful contribution to the Misreading Nee page. You can find my email on my front page.

Troy Brooks