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Originally Posted by Ohio
Living Stream Ministry has now canonized the words of their founder Watchman Nee on their websites and on the granite boulder in front of their skyscraper in downtown Taipei ..."The Bible is our only standard. We are not afraid to preach the pure Word of the Bible even if men oppose; but if it is not the Word of the Bible, we could never agree even if anyone approves of it."
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Interesting phrase: "the pure Word of the Bible..." If they think it is so pure, why denigrate it so, characterizing it as "fallen", "natural", and merely the "concepts" of unrighteous men? What is even more puzzling is WL's admitting as divinely revelatory those portions quoted in the NT, yet even denuding the surrounding text of Christ! See Psalm 34's
"Not one of His bones will be broken", and WL's unpleasant and dismissive commentary on the rest of the psalm, as an example. There are, unfortunately, many examples.
The value of the "pure Word of the Bible" is that it reveals Christ Himself to us; Christ who the Way home to our Father in heaven, who is Truth personified to us, who is the very Life itself. Take Christ out of the Bible and what do we have left? They may indeed keep "...the Word of the Bible" but WL's ministry has rendered it dead letters.