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Originally Posted by cityonahill
What ML found was not an abstract, hard to understand truth that was kept hidden until his age. Rather, passages like Romans 1:17 became his battlecry as he sought to reform the corrupt controlling church he was apart of... "The Just shall live by faith"-simple as that. He did not expound on this concept as WL has done with his economy theology. Rather it is the pure and simple word of God that the New Testament plainly taught!
Let's get real for a second: Anyone can find a random word in the NT, use their imagination to create a theology around it and connect the dots to claim it is THE theme of the NT!
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Following the concept you have posted, when Brother Witness Lee taught the following he was charged of being heretical wherein he was just repeating what the Bible is saying:
The Son is the Father
Isaiah 9:6: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
The Son and the Father are One
This is the clear word of Scripture: “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30).
The Last Adam Became a Life-giving Spirit
First Corinthians 15:45 states: “The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.”
The Lord (the Son) is the Spirit
In 2 Corinthians 3:17 we read: “And the Lord is the Spirit.”
In other version: "And the Lord is the Holy Spirit."
God's Economy
1Timothy 1:3-4 says: Even as I exhorted you... to remain in Ephesus in order that you might charge certain ones not to teach different things nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God's economy, which is in faith.
Was not Brother Witness Lee just echoing what the Bible is saying, as what Brother Martin Luther did?