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Originally Posted by Zezima
What Bible references do they use to back up this point?
I can’t recall Paul ever telling us our natural man needs to be broken. We are saved by Grace through faith.
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Here's a short excerpt from Nee from "The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit""
Romans 7:22 says, "For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man." Our inner man delights in the law of God. Ephesians 3:16 also tells us "to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man." In 2 Corinthians 4:16 Paul also said, "Though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day." The Bible divides our being into the outer man and the inner man. God resides in the inner man, and the man outside this God-occupied inner man is the outer man. In other words, our spirit is the inner man, while the person that others contact is the outer man. Our inner man puts on our outer man like a garment. God has placed Himself, His Spirit, His life, and His power in us, that is, in our inner man. Outside of our inner man is our mind, emotion, and will. Outside of all these is our body, our flesh.
But Romans 7:22 is followed up by Paul exclaiming "who will rescue me from this body of death?" Ephesians 3:16 simply speaks of an inner man or inner being, but carries no indication of it needed to be "released" via the "breaking of the outer man". And 2 Corinthians 4:16 is, I think, clearly speaking of our physical body decaying.
Most commentaries simply conclude "body and soul" by "outer/inner". Nee and Lee conclude outer = body and soul, and inner = spirit. The verses, however, don't support that. Our body is decaying; our soul is not.
I think Nee once again just needlessly divided up a human being into parts that don't exist........so they could be condemned and crushed even more.
This is partly why the FTTA exists - to "break the outer man".....meaning, to crush the soul through countless deadlines they have to meet during the day, unnecessarily strict cleaning regulations, and punishments for things that are not sins or anywhere near them.
Control gives people a feeling of power and authority and superiority. As base as it is, the desire for this feeling is one of the main causes of all this destruction caused by the LC. Power and control is "lording it over", which Jesus said is not to be done by His disciples.
Outside this forum I am also hearing reports of what is being spoken at the semi-annual trainings. I am sad for all the people trapped there having their reality shaped by lies.
Trapped