Men always want to be heard and to be seen as better than other men. When they take on the cudgels of spiritual leadership, they may loose insight on their strengths and weaknesses.
Often they see the glory of God and saints and project this glory on themselves and their following identify with them in the name of God and saints.
Thus this will potentiate cult culture and they become the chosen ones and their congregation become blind to their mortality and tend to immortalise them.
Men in immortalising men make devils out of them. This explains why Buddha says that his teachings will succeed him when he is gone and even Jesus never appoints a successor.
But the institutions of men must have leadership. So long as there is no cult or hero-worshipping and so long as there is due separation of administrative leadership from spiritual to enable checks and balance, all will be well.
Otherwise, men will end up worshipping the devil in man rather than God and saints. Often the leaders are fallible , more so when they are in the limelight and they get carried away.
Their charisma blinds the congregation and have hypnotic effect on the congregation to see them as the gateway to God.
Often they see the glory of God and saints and project this glory on themselves and their following identify with them in the name of God and saints.
Thus this will potentiate cult culture and they become the chosen ones and their congregation become blind to their mortality and tend to immortalise them.
Men in immortalising men make devils out of them. This explains why Buddha says that his teachings will succeed him when he is gone and even Jesus never appoints a successor.
But the institutions of men must have leadership. So long as there is no cult or hero-worshipping and so long as there is due separation of administrative leadership from spiritual to enable checks and balance, all will be well.
Otherwise, men will end up worshipping the devil in man rather than God and saints. Often the leaders are fallible , more so when they are in the limelight and they get carried away.
Their charisma blinds the congregation and have hypnotic effect on the congregation to see them as the gateway to God.
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