[UntoHim]

Timotheist, awareness, Zezima and others.

As interesting as biblical textual criticism is, I'm afraid that such "criticism" is beyond the purview of this forum. After all, aren't there enough controversial subjects surrounding the teachings of Nee and Lee, and the history of the Local Church without delving into matters that most of have very little knowledge of or formal education in?

Some people are coming here to get answers and to get help. Some people have been hurt, abused and discouraged, and the last thing they need to hear a bunch of knuckleheads going back and forth about things of which they have little to no significant knowledge of. They also don't need to have their faith in the Bible as the Word of God unnecessarily challenged. There are already enough challenges for us current and former Local Church members to have to deal with without having to get into the weeds of textual criticism.

This is NOT a call or invitation by me for some open debate about this.

Here is Nell's 2nd post in the thread. Yu'all are welcome to continue if you want to address what she brings up here:

Originally Posted by Nell

I don't really mean to set out to prove the Bible is fallible. I can't say that I believe that. But, I will just look for a simple (scriptural) explanation of the apparent contradiction between the verse in James' book vs. the verses in Paul's books.

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