Unspiritual Riding the Coattails of the Spiritual
Praise the Lord the Holy Spirit is not as narrow as me. Amen
to that. Christian Fellowship Publishers is not my favorite bookseller, but what
you do find there is those of Stephen Kaung's humble translations and were not
alterations like you find at Living Stream Ministry and making up new Nee stuff
so it fits Witness Lee.
I make no money since I have no affiliation to CFP whatsoever. I have nothing to
gain, but the truth in your heart. Just as Christ kept himself from things and
so did Paul so they would not be blamed, so have I in order that I could not be
accused of any ulterior motive so why do you accuse me? Instead of accusing of
an ulterior motive, why don't you do as I have recommended, and see that all I
have said holds true.
Get two books, said to be of the same material. One translated by Stephen Kaung
and one by Witness Lee. If you do a detailed study you will see two different
Watchman Nee's. One, the person, the other, a fabricated and alteration of the
man, Watchman Nee so that he agrees with Witness Lee's new nomenclature
particular to the Local Church system and not the little flock. This is
unacceptable. See for yourself that all I say is true. This is not small matter.
Especially over the coming years, you will find spiritual men who are willing to
take on this project of comparison to prove this case.
For example, in the Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee, translated by Stephen Kaung,
you see the term
"affection" used to describe one of the three main aspects of emotion, and
then Nee goes to describe what affection is in Scripture and its different
things it entails, only one of which is love. But
Witness Lee in his typical shallow fashion changed the Spiritual Man, and this
term to mean love only. It is like Witness Lee goes to extreme with our emotions
inaccurately limiting the depth of the message Watchman Nee was conveying. You
can see how the shouting and screaming might come out of this not allowing the
believer to have the full context of emotion in Scripture restrained by the
Lord, making the person less well rounded in Leeism. Certainly this is a
consequence.
Same thing again with the word "desire". Watchman Nee details this as the second
aspect of man's emotion. And then He goes to describe this word and detail
scripture of its various aspects.
But what does Witness Lee do? Witness Lee changes this word to "hate". OMG!!!
It was at this moment I began to realize Witness Lee is cognizantly purposefully
and premeditatedly changing things to mess with people to control them and
keeping them under control by his godship to them through these various methods,
not least of which is limiting the emotion of man - keeping it immature to
control people.
Think about it. If a person can have limiting emotions, and be undeveloped, then
that person can be controlled with more success. It appears Witness Lee realized
this and employed this stratagem in his cult.
Make no mistake about this. This is a common tactic of cult leaders which
Witness Lee was well versed in his business dealings consummated in the Local
Church Living Stream system. It's ingenious but also not of God.
I began to realize that you will find more and more of this in Witness Lee's
alteration of Watchman Nee's writings and Lee's own writings of course. All you
have to do is put in the effort to see it. And each time I did a comparison, the
same thing happened again. A more shallow representation and an outright
alteration.
Then I was noticing at LSM they were coming out with new Watchman Nee books, but
where from I ask?
It was then I began to realize that they are making stuff up built upon the high
regard men of God had for Watchman Nee's powerful writings.
That is that.
Troy Brooks