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Originally Posted by Ohio

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.

As I wrote in my response to Aron...Lee didn't want his flock to be doers of the WORD eh?

Here are some other scriptures from James that probably rubbed Lee the wrong way:

If you need Wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone.

Don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. He chose to give birth to us by giving us His True Word (Jesus) . And we, out of all creation, became His prized possession

According to these scriptures, we are instructed to go to God Himself for Wisdom...and are advised not to be misled. Do you suppose Lee didn't want people to get Wisdom from their Creator? Do you think Lee wanted to mislead people? Hmmm... No wonder he didn't like 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.

Does Lee's flock still believe Psalms and James are of a lesser status?

Seems to me, he lacked Christ and lacked divine inspiration and revelation from the Throne.

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.

In my last year there, I recalled hearing a lot about this heavenly speaking. Fortunately, I equated the WORD as being the Heavenly Speaking.

Little by little however, I became sickened by the 'heavenly speaking' because it was not coming from God.

As time progressed, Witness Lee's view of himself and his ministry grew to megalomaniacal proportions

"megalonmanical"....resembles Lebron James personality.

I only hope those who have very disillusioned, discouraged and hurt by the LC will realize Jesus is the Same--Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow...the Healer of our souls, Who restores our health and heals our wounds. Our Creator truly does love us! He just wants us to Love Him back, listen and obey His leading, His guidance through His Spirit and His Anointed Word.

Thanks all,
Blessings and Joy to everyone.

Carol Garza