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Originally Posted by Cal
True. But because you think you are experiencing life doesn't mean you are experiencing God, because the life is also a person, and we all know that the experience of "life" in the LR depersonalizes God. You can talk about God as "life" so much that you lose sight that getting to know life is getting to know a Person. This is the error of many false religions. They reduce God to a force, because dealing with God as a person means dealing with another mind, attitude and preference. It's much more convenient to deal with God as just a force that makes you feel good.
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Excellent observations here.
The more I think back about this matter of "knowing life," the more upset I get remembering the stories. For years in the LC "brother's meetings" we would hear reports of interactions with brothers from other regions, including HQ's in Anaheim. Brothers would mention rivalries, backbitings, deceptions, false witnesses, man-pleasings, pretenses, prejudices, partialities, playing favorites, etc. I'm not talking about the gentiles here, but so-called leaders in the Recovery.
Eventually some "wise" brother in the meeting would make the conclusion, "
well, they just don't know life." And I would silently and proudly conclude, "
so glad I know life." Yet here we were with brothers who spent more time talking about "life" than any Christians in history, yet they don't know life.
Don't know life!?! They don't know the scripture either. Neither do they know God the Father nor the Son.
What do they really know? They know the ways and words of Witness Lee. Period. His ways supersede everything, including the life of God, knowing God, and knowing His word.