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Originally Posted by aron
There's a footnote at the end of the RecV, on the tree of life, where it says the 'nations' (Gk: 'ethnoi') get healed by the leaves of the tree, and the note says that these are unbelievers who behave well during the 3.5 year "Great Tribulation" and get access to healing. The note then says, "They live forever, yet this is not eternal life". (I paraphrase by memory).
There's a certain point where the finite tries to explain infinity, where the fallible tries to show perfection, and the temporal incautiously grasps at eternity, and the finite, temporal, fallible logic takes the bearer off somewhere, like where Witness Lee and his disciples got taken off to. I don't know where that is, and I don't want to. I have enough trouble already, without getting into his trouble, too!
There's a Russian proverb that says, "No matter how far you've gone on the wrong road, turn back."
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Most of WL's ideas and teachings on these subjects are not his own, but taken from others, most of whom were
not Brethren or Recovery. We should not categorically reject teachings just because they were WL's.
The mission of
Schoettle Publishing Company is to keep many of these scholarly books in circulation for the benefit of the entire body of Christ. I'll post his mission from his website:
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