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Originally Posted by Recovering
. . . It's true that if you cherry-pick your verses and gerrymander the context sufficiently, you can construct cases to support a wide variety of conflicting interpretations of Scripture. . . .
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My years of "careful study" of so many of the LRC teachings is that context was seldom on the mind of Nee or Lee (or the minions that have followed). Words — without context — seem to be fertile ground for creating one golden calf after another. It is better to remove the context. Study only one little fortune cookie at a time. Then throw those words in the fire and out comes another golden calf. Reveal it to your listeners in the midst of well-known phrases that always get lots of "amens" and they won't even notice that initial nagging question when you finally make your next ridiculous claim. At that point, the tsunami of "amens" will wash away any chance for the question to resurface later.
At least that's the way I recall it working in Lee's favor.