[Paul Miletus]

Originally Posted by cityonahill

Paul,

You have brought up things that need to be discussed in another thread regarding other Lee teachings. This is only regarding God's economy.

In regards to God's economy, I'm dissapointed that after all the information I have given you, your only response is to repeat 1 Timothy 1:4.
Just because you can show me one passage that carries the phrase "God's economy" (even though some would translate it God's work...) doesn't explain or even defend Witness Lee's advanced economy theology that is found on god'seconomy.org


The truth is that his theology cannot be explained biblically without manipulating the original context. You said Lee just repeated the simple word as ML did with his justification through faith. wrong!
Paul, if Lee was merely repeating the word of God,(as you claim) where did he find "divine dispensing, processed triune God, consummate divine multiplication,...and the list goes on and on!

When Paul said in 1 Timothy not to "teach differently" he obviously wasn't talking about divine dispensing. If he was he would have said so.

Ephesians 1:10 and 3:9 are verses where you can find the word "economy" in addition to 1Timothy 1:4.

Likewise, the "economy of God" is further explained --

Or, plan. The Greek word, oikonomia, means house law, household management or administration, and derivatively, administrative dispensation, plan, economy. The economy that God, according to His desire, planned and purposed in Himself is to head up all things in Christ at the fullness of the times. This is accomplished through the dispensing of the abundant life supply of the Triune God as the life factor into all the members of the church that they may rise up from the death situation and be attached to the Body.

The Greek word means household law, implying distribution (the base of this word is of the same origin as that for pasture in John 10:9, implying a distribution of the pasture to the flock). It denotes a household management, a household administration, a household government, and, derivatively, a dispensation, a plan, or an economy for administration (distribution); hence, it is also a household economy. God's economy in faith is His household economy, His household administration (cf. note 101 in Eph. 1; Eph. 3:9), which is to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen people that He may have a house to express Himself, which house is the church (3:15), the Body of Christ. The apostle's ministry was centered on this economy of God (Col. 1:25; 1 Cor. 9:17), whereas the different teachings of the dissenting ones were used by God's enemy to distract His people from this economy. In the administration and shepherding of a local church, this divine economy must be made fully clear to the saints.

In the first chapter of this book the apostle Paul presented God's economy in opposition to different teachings. God's economy is in faith (v. 4), whereas the different teachings are based on the principle of the law and centered on the law (vv. 7-10). Hence, faith is versus the law, as dealt with in Gal. 3 (vv. 2, 5, 23-25). Any teaching that is based on the principle of the law and centered on the law is unhealthy (v. 10). Only God's economy, which is in faith, in opposition to the teachings that are based on the principle of the law and centered on the law, is healthy and can make it possible for people to believe on Christ unto eternal life (v. 16) and to thus participate in God's eternal plan, God's economy, which is in faith. This is the gospel of glory with which the blessed God entrusted the apostle Paul (v. 11). If anyone thrusts away such faith and a good conscience, regarding the faith he becomes shipwrecked on a deep sea (v. 19).