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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Witness Lee claimed that Paul's epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians were “the heart of the divine revelation”. While Paul related many high and deep revelations in these epistles, only THE Gospel should be considered “of first importance”.
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Witness Lee first made this statement prior to the Galatians training. I was studying Galatians and Bill Freeman had told me that before you study a book of the Bible you need to read it 100 times. So I had been reading Galatians over and over and I began to see that any topic that anyone talked about in the Church was mentioned in Galatians. I began to tell the saints in Houston, much to their amusement and delight, that Galatians was the Central book of the whole Bible. This became a joke until WL came out with the "heart of the divine revelation". So my understanding of this is that all NT threads pass through these four books. Even you quoted Galatians and you could have also quoted a number of other verses from those 4 books to make your point. Consider the organization of Paul's epistles Romans -- the gospel, 1 Cor -- the church, 2 Cor -- the ministry. These are the big three threads and they are concluded by John's 3 epistles: 1 John summarizes the gospel "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God". 2 John summarizes the church -- "Jesus Christ is come in the flesh" and 3 John summarizes the ministry -- "that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth".
After these 4 books by Paul the other epistles of Paul deal with the growth in life in various stages. (I am excluding Hebrews).