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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
The fact is that I already examined them and that is why I wrote what I did. I saw plainly that Lee was referring to "one spirit" when he spoke about mingling.
That is the problem. You cannot say "He that is glued to the Lord is mingled with the Lord." It doesn't work.
Thankful Jane
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Yes, but your argument against mingling hinged on the greek word for "joined", yet the references you provided showed clearly that Witness Lee hinged the term mingling on the "one spirit".
According to the verse it is the act of being joined that results in the state or condition of being one spirit.
This word for one in 1 Cor 6:17, "heis" in greek, is the same word used by Jesus when referring to relationship that He has with the Father:
John 17: 21-23a that
they may all be one (heis), just as
you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that t
hey may be one (heis) even as
we are one (heis), 23
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly
one (heis)
I Cor 6:17 He who is joined
(kollao) to the Lord is one
(heis) spirit.
Therefore, the characterization of mingling resides with the "one spirit" (heis), the many "one"'s (heis) as in John 17 and not "joined" (kollao) as you argued.
So according to John 17 the Lord Jesus said the "heis" He had with the Father was that the Father was in Him and He in the Father. This mutual indwelling between the Father and the Son is referred to as
co-inherence ("see blue text above in John 17)), borrowing a more accepted theological term. The Lord Jesus said that the believers were to be "heis" with the Father and the Son. He says They (Father and Son) would be in the believers and the believers would be in the Father and the Son and that the believers, as a result, would be perfectly "heis".
Therefore, according to the Lord's prayer in John 17 the believers were (future tense at that prayer's instance) to be brought into the co-inherence of the Father and the Son.
I'll pause to let that percolate before continuing.