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Originally Posted by Trapped
Welcome to the forum, Bible-believer!
What has helped me the most in evaluating the teachings in the local church are to ask these questions:
1. What does Lee/ministry teach?
2. What does the Bible actually say? (or, does the Bible actually say that?)
Do you have any examples of the writings from Lee that the elders/members pointed you to regarding this four-in-one teaching? If so, we can look at his claims directly.
Otherwise, I still have some thoughts about the teaching, but if we have ministry excerpts to look at I think it's best to start with what Lee claimed and how he supported his claims first.
Trapped
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They teach
"The Bible reveals that God is immutable in His essence and that God has been processed in His economy. As the processed God, the Triune God has passed through crucial and interdependent steps in the divine economy in order to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people…God’s process ultimately is related to becoming flesh through incarnation and becoming the life-giving Spirit through resurrection."
Our Unchanging, Processed God
“the Christ in whom we believe is the center of the Triune God.” Because of this, “the Triune God became mingled with man… He is not only the Triune God but also a man… He is the Triune God mingled with man. Therefore, He is the Triune God-man."
Witness Lee, The All-Inclusive Spirit of Christ
(Los Angeles: The Stream Publishers, 1969), pp. 8-11
It's like in this process is the Triune God becoming flesh. Jesus Christ is not the Second Person of the Trinity. Instead, “the Christ in whom we believe is the center of the Triune God.” It's like in this process is Jesus, the Triune God-man becoming the Spirit. If so, does it means they are not separate "three Persons", but just one? If so, does it means they are not separate "three Persons", but just one? and if so, is the teaching of Triune God the same as the Trinity?
Maybe I didn't make myself clear on this matter, but you can see how confused I am about this teaching.