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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
Dear Paul M,
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:
Thankful Jane
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Hi TJ,
I hope you caught the distinction between the use of life giving Spirit vs. the Holy Spirit you mentioned in refuting the other posters position.
Yes, the Holy Spirit has always existed, but the Holy Spirit could not enter into man as the giver of Gods life, until the death and ressurrection of our Lord Jesus; it was at this point that the Holy Spirit could become the life giving Spirit.This is the main point as I understood it from brother Lee's ministry. Not two Spirits but one Spirit that became the life giver to man after the Lords ressurrection.