Postscript
I wanted to add as a kind of postscript, a final thought, related to my third post.
We only can build the world out of the ingredients we are given. Only God creates out of "nothing". The rest of us are forced to use the ingredients we are given. "What do you have, that you did not receive?"
But what we do with the ingredients that we receive is our fully responsibility. The world we build is still our world, not somebody else's. If you want to live in Witness Lee's world, you can. But it is your choice, and your responsibility.
Some will say, "No, it's not Witness Lee's world, it's the Bible." But that is disingenuous. It's the Bible interpreted by Witness Lee. Some verses are deemed crucial via his supposed revelation, and many others are ignored or deemed as mere human concepts. But in reality, the human concepts belong to Witness Lee. The question is, do we passively receive them, or examine them critically, like any other input?
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"Freedom is free. It's slavery that's so horribly expensive" - Colonel Templeton, ret., of the 12th Scottish Highlanders, the 'Black Fusiliers'
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