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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I have been receiving T. Austin-Sparks messages from The Golden Candlestick ministry for years. Sparks may have mentioned "God's economy", but his definitions are biblically based, Witness Lee's "economy" is not biblically based. The Bible does not say that man is becoming God, the Bible does not say that we are going to be mingled with God, the Bible does not say that our eternal destiny is to be melted into some "mingling of divinity with humanity, issuing in a universal, corporate, mysterious person" (Lee - Footnote on Revelation 22:21)
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My reference to Sparks was strictly to God's adminstration which the recovery terms as economy. As far as man becoming God mantra, of course most of God's servants would not speak such a word. Let's take Ephesians 1:5for example, the word adoption is omitted in the Rcv version. Whereas in the NASB or Darby, it is not. By the adopted sense we are His sons and we are brothers of Jesus, but not how Lee's theology portrays sonship to be.
Ephesians 1:5
having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Darby Translation
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Recovery Translation