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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I don't get it, I am lost. Correct me where I am mistaken:
Awareness -- Your position is that the Bible is the word of God, you love the Bible, you love God, but many parts of the Bible are man's word, not divinely inspired. Also, you can worship God without the Bible. And the misunderstanding of various Bible verses have been used to justify evil actions by man. You also don't agree with the concept that times have changed and as a result man's worship of God has changed too. You state that since Abraham didn't have a Bible and worshipped God, you also don't need a Bible.
This seems to me to be what you have said, am I wrong, am I missing the key point, or is this pretty much correct?
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Since you didn't respond I will assume this is an accurate depiction.
My issue is this:
We have used the Bible to highlight the errors of Witness Lee. This is based on the Bible being the word of God and hence the highest authority.
If you argue that the Bible is not the highest authority, then based on what are you taking issue with Witness Lee? Your personal morality? We have already learned over and over that using what man figures is OK is a sliding scale. One day marriage refers to a man and a woman, the next we discover that is a bigoted attitude, blah, blah, blah. The Bible condemns fornication and adultery, this generation doesn't. The Bible condemns covetousness, this generation argues that "greed is good". The Bible condemns liars, this generation has experimented with every form of lie imaginable.
Likewise, if you provide a basis to say that some verses do not rise to the standard of God's word which carries His authority and inspiration, then who decides which verses these are? You have just justified a third of the issues I have with Witness Lee's teaching, and you have completely undermined any basis to take issue with the other two thirds.
If you say MOTA is unscriptural, what weight does that have if you have different people deciding what is and is not scripture?
How do you say that the NT condemns the litigious nature of Witness Lee and the LSM? Maybe those verses were influenced by Plato, or the Bronze age, or some other lame excuse.
The book of Colossians says that "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge is hidden in Christ". To me if I don't understand a verse in the Bible then there is a hidden treasure of wisdom there for me to discover, it is merely one more example of how God's thoughts are not my thoughts. But teaching that you can go through the Bible with a knife and cut out verses you don't like completely short circuits the chance of discovering these treasures.