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Originally Posted by zeek

Well, Unregistered, you may think me a fool, and perhaps you’re right . You can look at my signature line and see that I spent 13 years in the meetings of the local churches. It’s true anyone reading the Christian Bible can come across Galatians, 2:20. However, isn’t it also true that unless the Lord reveals himself to that person, that person’s knowledge of the verse will be merely intellectual, that is the “dead letter”?

Admittedly, you and I don’t know each other and I have only two short paragraphs with which to judge your understanding of the situation, but it seems to me that you wish to entirely dismiss the teachings of Witness Lee as untrue. I think that’s a mistake. It oversimplifies the problem.

For example, Witness Lee taught the existence of God. If someone rejects everything Witness Lee taught, they would become an unbeliever--an atheist. Is that what you’re advocating?

Now let’s look at the WL teachings you rejected above as examples. If Christ lives in Paul, how did he get there unless God dispensed himself into Paul? Further, the Eastern Orthodox Church teaches deification that is that man can become God. Do you dismiss Eastern Orthodoxy too? The total rejection of Witness Lee’s teaching. It seems to me, illustrates the problem of all or nothing thinking that may be the easy way to go.The way of discerning what was true and what was false is much more difficult.

If everything Witness Lee taught was a lie, smart people and sincere Christians would not have spent years participating in the movement that he led. I think the problem is more difficult than that and requires spiritual discernment lest we perpetuate the way of error and division.

What? Huh? I'm not recognizing this "zeek." Has his account been hacked?

Just kidding! I could not agree more, zeek. Like the Bible says, "keep the good and trash the bad."