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Originally Posted by Ohio
For me the "lonely God" desiring to find a human wife for His Only Begotten Son seems innocuous enough, since the moral of the story was indeed only the love of God reaching man.
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I can appreciate the verses in Genesis. Man was made in God's likeness, where the other creatures were not. But this was on earth. In heaven God has many sons, created in His likeness. See Job 1:6. Also see when Abraham's visitors arrive. Angels look like men because angels and men both look like God. They are all "created in His likeness". But angels in heaven obey God; men on earth (apart from Christ) obey Satan.
Second, on Adam being alone, that does not mean God was alone. Tomes is right to challenge this analogy.
Ohio asks, why is all this fuss necessary over interpretation? I would say because WL departed from the footsteps of the flock. He said that he was being steadfast in following the teachings and fellowship of the apostles, but he was continually coming up with novel twists on the gospel story, saying it was a revelation straight from the throne, and marketing it to the gullible. That's where "Bruther Lee said..." comes in. The only legs this "lonely Triune God" has to stand on are those of Lee.
I also speculate, and use my logic/inspiration to "see new things" in the scripture. But we all can and should, and can bring these insights and inspirations into the assembly to be tried and (often) either tossed aside or modified and pruned.
The real story behind "Local Church Discussions" is that WL was lonely in Christianity so he wanted to create a "Witness Lee Duplication Center" where assorted lackeys, hacks, and sycophants would gather on his every word; the contents of his imagination would be held as manna from heaven itself. That is I think what Tomes is questioning. That we would hold one man's opinion as the equivalent of "truth". As
'unregistered' recently wrote, "the Truth is a Person [and that Person ain't Witness Lee]."