[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Nee

All human affection is empty;
Watchman Nee

In general, it is not fair or advisable to take a few words from a lengthy quote, and then launch into a critique based upon those few words, but one is forced to make a rule out of what should be an exception when it comes to the ministry writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee.

Now if Nee had made the obvious/reasonable observation that "SOME human affection is empty", that would be one thing, but no, Watchman, as he was apt to do, had to frame everything in the extreme. In this one short quote, Nee used unnecessarily extreme/final terms such as "only God", "man cannot", "the failure of many" "only in God", "all human affection" "the love of God alone" "immediately falls".

In my experience and observation, when one resorts to framing things in the extreme, it usually indicates a lack of genuine experience and/or knowledge of the subject at hand.
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