I think you analyzed this very well. Yes, UBF teaches this kind of "humility". You cannot trust anybody, not even yourself. You cannot trust any other people outside UBF, because of their "human thinking" as well. So you can trust only UBF. I think this is a very dangerous teaching.

What they don't see is that in the end, you always need to trust yourself that you understood the word of God in the Bible correctly or that you chose the right people to patronize you. Or rather you need to trust God so much that *he* (through the Spirit) will help you get the right understanding of the Bible if your read it seriously.

But UBF people start with another subconscious axiom: UBF leaders and UBF interpretation is trustworthy per definition, UBF is the way how God speaks to me directly. If the leader challenges a person to do something, this is considered as God's direct command. So you have only the possibility to obey God or not. The third possibility, that it was just the word of a man and not the will of God, is excluded. This is the essence of all the UBF indoctrination through Sunday messages and 1:1 study: Make people believe that this third possibility does not exist, but that always UBF=God. This belief is not even conscious, but subconcious.

Any questioning of what UBF leaders say or do would be already considered not humble in UBF. If you start to think critically or even start to reflect or question things, you are already considered "proud" (not only by others, but your own thinking is that way). You cannot judge anything that UBF teaches or has determined for you, this would mean being "proud". You cannot judge the organization.

UBFins can very well judge and criticize other organizations (other churches) or other authorities (parents), so they do not lack this ability to judge others generally. But they think UBF is too "holy" or "exempt" for being questioned. What is the reason for this? I think there are two reasons:

1) The daily indoctrination. Everybody in UBF lives on the basis of "God=UBF". You soon subconsciously make this also an axiom of your life.

2) Your personal experience. You interpret the fact that UBF missionaries knocked on your door as a miraculous sign that God chose to speak to you to UBF. You interpret the fact that you started understanding the Bible or got your first emotional personal experience with God in UBF, e.g. on a conference or during a Bible study, and that you are emotionally touched when singing spiritual songs in UBF, as proof that God=UBF. At least you become sure that the equation "God=UBF" is true for you personally (and that is enough for the UBF leaders to control you).

These two factors are very powerful, don't underestimate them. They affect your subconscious and your emotions. They are much more powerful than rational thinking.

But UBF people start with another subconscious axiom: UBF leaders and UBF interpretation is trustworthy per definition, UBF is the way how God speaks to me directly. If the leader challenges a person to do something, this is considered as God's direct command. So you have only the possibility to obey God or not. The third possibility, that it was just the word of a man and not the will of God, is excluded. This is the essence of all the UBF indoctrination through Sunday messages and 1:1 study: Make people believe that this third possibility does not exist, but that always UBF=God. This belief is not even conscious, but subconcious.

As discussed here, many cult leaders especially from Korea are trying to establish the subconscious axioms such as UBF=God in the mind of their members by convincing them that "human" understanding is "evil" and in that process they shut down their "human" understanding completely. Samuel Lee didn't mind employing spiritual and theological violences to accomplish this purpose through ridiculous horror stories and false theology.