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Originally Posted by Cassidy
"This is the most damning aspect of Lee's teachings, that the Bible is fallable..."
This is patently false. An outright fabrication. A damning bearing of false witness.
"The Bible is the Word of God. We believe that the Bible, word by word, is divinely inspired by God (2 Pet. 1:21), as the breath of God (2 Tim. 3:16). The genuine Christians do not have any doubt about this point. We must believe that the Bible is God's infallible Word."
Speciality, Generality, and Practicality of the Church Life, The
Witness Lee
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"Second, although every line and word of the Scripture is inspired by God, this does not mean that every word in this holy Book is the word of God, but we must be very careful in our understanding of this matter. In the Bible there are a great many words that are not God’s words. We may give several examples to make this matter clear...
In his Epistle James wrote in a godly way concerning many things: visiting widows and orphans, keeping oneself unspotted from the world, fulfilling the perfect law of freedom, saying, “If the Lord wills,” concerning the future, encouraging the believers to pray according to the example of Elijah. James’ word regarding these things may be godly,
but it is not God’s word. Nevertheless, such a book is included among the holy writings, which were breathed by God, inspired by God." Life Study of James, Message 14, section 3).
Yep, a complete fabrication. Look at how much Witness Lee appreciated how this next Psalm exposed him, and this light shining on his personal situation was the light he needed. Duddy was too blind to see this:
"This shows us that Psalm 1 is good, but it was written with a wrong concept. The law was not given for us to keep for our prosperity. Instead, the law was given to expose us. The writer of Psalm 1, David, was exposed by the law as being a murderer and a robber of someone's wife. Because of what he had done, the situation with his entire family became a mess. Fornication and murder were among his children (2 Sam. 13:1-29), and rebellion came from his son, Absalom (15:7-12). The third psalm was a psalm of David when he was fleeing from his rebellious son. Thus, we should not highly appraise Psalm 1.
It was written wrongly with a wrong concept, a human concept." Life Study of Psalms, Message 1, Section 1.
You see most people understand the idea of "the Bible being the word of God, divinely inspired word by word by God" too simply. Not Witness Lee, he got to the depth of this, for example:
"The book of Proverbs is recorded in the Word of God,
but it is not the word directly from God. Rather, it is the word of many wise men, especially Solomon. In the same way, most of the Bible is not the word of God directly. However, much of the Old Testament is God's speaking, such as Genesis 1:3, where God said, "Let there be light." Although Proverbs is a book in the Bible, when we contact it by our natural man, it is not the word of God to us." (The Life Study of Proverbs, Message 6, Section 1).