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Originally Posted by aron
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, for one example. There are, unfortunately, many more examples.
The value of the "pure Word of the Bible" is that it reveals Christ Himself to us; Christ who the Way home to the Father, who is Truth personified, who is the very Life to us. Take Christ out of the Bible and what do you have left? They may have retained "...the Word of the Bible" but WL's ministry has rendered it into dead letters.
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It is our heavenly Father's God-breathed, wise counsel that surrounds the "pure Word of the Bible," which reveals Christ, His Son, with all the worst of fallen man and even David, a man after God's own heart, with all of his own "human sentiment."
Ironically, one like me is still able, at times, to read the ministry of Witmess Lee, with all of his own fallen natural sentiments, and still find the "pure Word of the Bible," which Christ Himself.