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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
Does Lee's flock still believe Psalms and James are of a lesser status?
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Evidently.
Yesterday I was in Psalm 30, and came across the line, "When you hid your face from me, then I was ashamed" (v.7), and I remembered how Christ bore our shame on the cross, and the Father turned away from him. He who did not know sin was made sin on our behalf (2 Cor. 5:21). Tears came to my eyes. (And see Isa. 53:3-5, Heb. 12:2, Psa. 22, Matt. 27:46).
In the RecV, this doesn't get considered. No footnote, no cross-reference.
Does all this make me somehow superior to WL & Co? Not at all; obedience is what matters. These verses have to impact one's daily living. The faithful doers of the word are not merely hearers only. But I still come back to this: how can you be a doer of the Word when your "oracle" tells you to ignore it?
Conversely, can I "prove" that Psalm 30:7 is equivalent to the other scriptures cited above? No; nor can I say that WL was "incorrect" in not pointing out this phrase in the RecV.
But this
is the word of God; it has the power to radically transform one's life, and probably 75 to 85 percent of the word of God in the RecV Psalms was set aside as of no value.
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Seems to me, he lacked Christ and lacked divine inspiration and revelation from the Throne.
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That was my conclusion: WL said the word lacked divine revelation, when it was WL himself that lacked revelation.
Again, this doesn't mean that I myself have "laid hold" of the divine revelation. It means that if I
do want to lay hold, I'd better not follow WL.
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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.
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It seems to be a classic case of "lifting oneself up", or "being puffed up". Eventually the ministry of WL tried to subsume everything else. The "servant" tried to take the focus away from "the master". And the "interpreted word" tried to push aside the WORD itself.