[Thankful Jane]

Originally Posted by Paul Miletus

The Lord Jesus Christ was able to breathe on the disciples and saying "Receive the Holy Spirit" ....Therefore, 1Corinthians 15:45 "the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit" is not an animation of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit, but rather the Lord Jesus Christ is the real ALL-INCLUSIVE SPIRIT! The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah! Amen.

Dear Paul M,

The verse that says Christ breathed on the disciples and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit" is perfectly true. This is in no way contradictory with the idea that the new physical being of Christ (the one in resurrection) was alive by the Spirit. He was clearly alive by the power of the Holy Spirit that raised him from the dead. He was clearly able to give this Spirit, the Holy Spirit, to the disciples, He had authority to do that because He had paid the debt for sin and removed the hindrance to this being done. The Spirit could not be given to man (John 7:39) until the sin debt was paid.

Here is the problem with your oracle’s teaching, as I have told you, I believe, at other times:

Here are Witness Lee's words: “In His resurrection a life-giving Spirit was produced (1 Cor. 15:45). Before Christ’s resurrection, there was not such a life-giving Spirit in the universe. John 7:39 says that ‘the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified’; that is, Jesus had not yet entered into resurrection (Luke 24:26). On the day that He entered into resurrection, the life-giving Spirit was produced.” Witness Lee, The Organic Union in God’s Relationship with Man (Anaheim, CA: Living Stream Ministry, 1993), p. 40.

This is a false teaching. The Holy Spirit existed in completeness before the resurrection of Christ and it could "give life" before the resurrection of Christ:

Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Look closely at this verse. This Spirit -- the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead -- is the one Paul says is in us today! And it clearly was already in existence before Christ was raised from the dead. So, what spirit then is “the Life Giving Spirit” that Lee is referring to when he says “before Christ’s resurrection, there was not such a life-giving Spirit in the universe?” Lee says “the life giving Spirit” was "produced" on the day Christ entered into resurrection.” Re-read what Lee said. He plainly said this. I am not twisting his words in any way but calling them out for what they actually say.

Lee’s teaching is a false teaching. According to his very own words the Spirit he is talking about in I Corinthians 15:45b cannot be the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was not produced on that day.

If he did not mean to teach this, and maybe he didn’t, then he clearly made a big mistake in what he spoke and what he published. In that case, the LSM publishers need to retract what I quoted from their materials and all such similar teaching from their publications, with an apology.

Thankful Jane