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Originally Posted by aron
...how could we have dutifully swallowed these teachings? How could thousands of bright and capable people have sat there in a conference and listened to a lengthy and sometimes tortuous exposition on how much the Psalms lacked revelation of Christ, without someone, anyone, going, "Um.... Mr. Lee... it says here..."?
My feeling of Lee and the Psalms is that he neither entered in, nor did he allow his disciples to enter in...
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I may not have been clear on the text which was the source of my discussion, because in writing I was thinking specifically of the quotes from Mr. Lee's Life-Study of Psalms 34 which
VoiceInWilderness posted earlier:
"Verse 15 says, The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous, / And His ears, toward their cry.
But who is righteous on this earth?"
and
"David said that if we love having days in order to see good, we should guard our tongue from evil and our lips from speaking deceit.
But who has ever succeeded in guarding his tongue from evil?"
The answer to these is obviously the coming Christ, Jesus the Nazarene (and should, in our NT experience, extend to those believers "in Christ"). It is understandable why Lee, who had an emotional (and financial) investment in his "God's economy" template, would avoid Jesus the Nazarene as the answer to both of these questions. But, in retrospect, it is stunning to think that from an audience numbering in the thousands, and of Christians no less, not one person could produce come up with this answer. Could this be true?
That is why I quoted Matthew 23:13 and Galatians 3:1. One hardly knows what else to make of such a lack of response, from so many listeners.