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Originally Posted by Unregistered
From the very beginning of the Bible in Genesis, when God placed man before the tree of life (Gen 2:9), to the very end of the Bible in Revelation (Rev. 21:1-2) where the tree of life is revealed, God clearly shows us through the scripture that He has a primary intention - to fill man with Himself as Life so that this man could fully express Him in a corporate way as the church, His Body (Eph 1:4-5;3:17-19). If not, why did our beloved Lord say in the gospel of John, "I am the way, the truth and the Life" and "I am the bread of Life", and "I am the water of Life", and "I am the light of Life". Why did He say "He who eats me, even he shall live because of me" (John 6:57). Was He not trying to help us to see we should receive Him as Life? Is this not dispensing? Why does using a slightly less than traditional expression make it any less true?
Eat Jesus! Enjoy Him! Fulfill His purpose! If this teaching is not of God, it will come to naught. If you oppose it, and it is from God, then you are stumbling your brothers for nothing.
A genuine believer in Christ
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The problem is that Lee took a "slightly less than traditional expression" and made it a template to over-ride the plain words of scripture in front of us. If Jesus' teaching on Oikonomia, for example, which stressed individual responsibility (note that the unjust steward has "his" Oikonomia taken away in Luke 16:2) runs afoul of Lee's extended riff on Paul's "God's economy" then Jesus' teaching must fall by the wayside. To Lee, Jesus' parable simply didn't exist.
So we got "God's economy" rammed down our throats, literally (think of all the chanting of Lee's outlines and bullet points), while Jesus' teachings on personal stewardship, using the exact same Greek word, were ignored.
And to add insult to injury, if you didn't fanatically parrot this stuff, and actually tried to read the Bible for yourself, then you were castigated as being dangerously independent. You weren't "one" with the teaching of God's current apostle.