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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
If you don't mind can you explain your comments?
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I'll add to this.
WL did his Life-Study of the Bible, and then went back to certain books to do a "crystalization" study. It was mostly during this time that WL began to berate the book of James, and much of the Psalms. James supposedly was lacking in the divine revelation, and hence contained little of God's New Testament economy. It is interesting to note that many of the verses most critical of WL and LSM found in the book of James.
Lee's study of Psalms was equally critical. Besides those scriptures in Psalms, commonly known to be prophetic of Christ, e.g. Psalm 22, he relegated much of them to the trash heap of "
human sentiment." Supposedly the bulk of the Psalms, especially e.g. those which spoke of "avenging my enemies," were denigrated to a lesser status because they lacked Christ, they lacked the divine inspiration, and they lacked revelation.
To a typical LC adherent, these books of James and most of the Psalms have less value than the teachings of Lee himself. Witness Lee often boasted that every page of his books was filled with the heavenly speaking, and every single book had some fresh new revelation from God.
As time progressed, Witness Lee's view of himself and his ministry grew to megalomaniacal proportions.