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Originally Posted by aron
Let me put it to you this way: do you get any sense from Paul's writings that Psalms 2, 8, 16 alone are "revelation" Psalms, while all the rest (1 through 21)are "natural concept" Psalms? And so on, through the rest of the book?
Or some other writer or expositor besides Paul, for that matter; New Testament or otherwise. If the Psalms were full of "stubble", don't you think someone would have pointed this out?
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The N.T. only speaks highly of the Psalms. Whether Jesus or the apostles, never once are any of the Psalms disparaged. Jesus promised all things will be fulfilled which have been written in the Psalms. Who could possibly know the limits and extent of all that has been written about the coming Savior?
Not only that, the Psalms seem to be intertwined with the lives of the early believers. When they gathered together, each one had a Psalm, and they were encouraged to speak to one another in Psalms. When alone, they were singing and psalming with their hearts to the Lord. When the apostles were with the Lord, He taught them to worship the Father in the Psalms, and the apostles passed on this rich heritage as part of the good news. When Paul visited a city without a synagogue, he would go down by the river to find those who worshiped God in Psalm.
Paul took it a step further. He spoke about the peace of Christ and the word of Christ dwelling in us and teaching others via the psalms sung with grace in our hearts. The apostle would say that there will never be one body in peace and love, unless we are continually being filled with the joy and grace in the psalms. The Psalms were a uniting bond between Jewish and Greek believers.
Then why would WL and his minions actively remove the Psalms from the spiritual diet of the saints? Why would WL in his "high peak" years teach the LRC to cut off verses and whole psalms, like cutting off gristle from a delmonico steak? Is this what happens when a minister gets elevated to MOTA status, he now is "qualified" to decide which scripture are really scripture?