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Originally Posted by james73
There is no hope of enlightenment if approaching the bible with the preconception it is "God's word".
You could not drink water if you needed to control the construction of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms from subatomic particles, the binding of the atoms into the water molecule, the interactions between gravity and the chemistry in your body, you would die of thirst while still on the four millionth page of quantum calculations for the first drop……. Drink it, don't analyze it  |
I have to agree with BB on this.
And while the Bible is not the end of God's word, it is the anchor for anything that we call God's word. If anyone, as Lee did, suggests that there is no more commandment of the law, they are speaking in opposition to God's word because Jesus said that the command not only remains, but is more intricately difficult than the original.
But then He did two things. He gave the great commandment, in two parts, that sums up the entirety of the commands. Then as the result of his death and resurrection, we now have the Spirit with us always to lean on and walk with as we live our lives to Him.
I don't get the meaning of the discourse on chemistry. It has no obvious parallel. Maybe he meant that we don't need to understand how it is made. But what he said was we couldn't drink if we had to make it. Mostly true. But hydrogen, oxygen, and a spark do quite fine. Just difficult to deal with the resulting explosion.
The chemistry in your body is irrelevant to making water. Water is water. once inside, your body does its thing.
As to Nee's comment about preconception, it is true. But there is no way to do that. So we must each bring our by-definition skewed view together with others who bring theirs. Only together do we find the truth.
And that is something neither Nee nor Lee could or would do. They were loners, thinking their own thoughts and teaching everyone else to follow them as if God spoke uniquely through them.