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Originally Posted by Ohio
Nee's messages were never written by him. He shared in workers' meetings without audio or video recordings. Each note-taker recorded his own version of the message. Each translator/publisher then took these notes in Chinese and embellished them into an English book.
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I understand your point, and think that it highlights the challenge to many of the Christian gospel testimonies, which probably passed through an even longer and more tortuous "oral tradition" before becoming finalized as written documents.
The fact that there
is so much agreement shows an amazing commonality of purpose, and the different gospel accounts' not being identical reinforces this. Were all their details perfectly synchronous, it would speak to some later "redactor" who basically bulldozed the texts into his idea of "agreement". The fact that God (largely) preserved the texts from such heavy-handed treatment is amazing. Think of how many generations have trembled before these words!