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Originally Posted by aron
The Bible has revelation ... beyond Nee and Lee's interpretive power. ...You got the interpretation they wanted at the time to keep their flock in line.
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This is why if you go to a "Crystallization training on Isaiah" today, for example, you will get repeated, vague warnings about not being "one" or "under the ministry", about being "rebellious" and "leprous" and so forth.
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I regularly attended the bi-annual LSM trainings. ... I began to hear the constant innuendos put forth about “negative” writings on the internet, “rebellions”, and so on. What really struck me about it is that here I was attending a training to hear the word of God, and instead they often would diverge into making these very broad statements about “rebellious ones” or “negative writings”, all of which was supposedly irrelevant to me. I could never see why they brought up such things in the first place.
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It may have little or nothing to do with the text at hand, at least beyond some general point at the surface. But they are stuck there because their situation (unending schism, need for power and control, etc) keeps them in that interpretive slot. The freedom to explore the Word and find out what God really wants to say has been curtailed. The message (i.e. their conception of current need) has been imposed on the text, rather than the text guiding the message.
Another interesting thing: I don't know what it's like today but when I was still in the LCs I remember looking at the HWMR outlines and noticing how much the imperative was stressed. Look for phrases like "We need to" or "We must" or "We should" or "We have to". What God has done in Christ Jesus is largely ignored, and a host of man-made requirements have been placed on the seeking one. All of which is to keep you occupied, and busy, and your attention focused on their task at hand. And the vision of Christ loses its unfolding dynamism, and becomes static, and recedes. Local Church "orthodoxy" has subsumed revelation.