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Originally Posted by Ohio
This was no different from the "church of Christ"... which had successfully used the teachings of their founder to drive a wedge between those who used instruments and those who do not. What exposed that system to me was Paul's exhortation in Eph. and Col. regarding the Psalms. When reading the Psalms, many actually instruct us which instruments to use..
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And nowhere in Paul's letters or in the church fathers was use of instruments an issue, that I am aware of. All that came much later when somebody claimed new light, which superseded all previous Christian teachings, practices, and traditions. Sound familiar?
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Originally Posted by Ohio
The ministry of the book of Hebrews, however, connected the writer, the reader, the eyewitnesses, the OT, and Jesus together, which then became the New Testament. The author of Hebrews has the goal of mining the OT scripture to "see Jesus," and then bringing the readers into the same "seeing." Witness Lee, to be fair, also attempted this, especially in the early days.
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The problem WL & Co eventually had with this was that it might lead to people "seeing Jesus" outside the ministry's speaking. So they decided that only "the oracle" could see Jesus, and that the rest of the "mooing cows" could only see Jesus through the ministry. The spirit of wisdom and revelation that Paul prayed for in Ephesians 1:17 got reduced to "seeing" that WL was God's oracle and MOTA.