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Originally Posted by aron
I certainly would not deny your experience. It is as real to you as mine has been to me.
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At the time I heard, "
the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit," apparently a huge need of mine was met within. The verse -- admittedly taken out of context --
Context!?! who cared about Context?!? --
since for the first time in my life I was made alive -- Alive together with Christ!
In those days, and those afterwards, what caught my attention, or should I say changed my heart and my life, was not the theological ramifications of 2nd of the Trinity becoming the 3rd of the Trinity, but how I was now alive. I was alive with Christ! And I got a verse to prove it.
Perhaps I didn't get the verse altogether right, or perhaps it really didn't matter. I probably was like that blind guy touched by the Lord in Mark 6 who said, "
I see men like trees walking!" That poor guy was just so happy to see, who can blame him if he didn't get it all right the first time? After Jesus laid His hands on him again, this time was perfect! With his own two eyes he was privileged to behold the Son of Man, the Father's delight, the Savior of the world.
I don't fault Lee for taking a verse out of context, getting all excited about it, and then passing on that same inspiration to others. Nothing wrong with that, happened many times, even happened in the Bible. Remember in John 1 where Philip was overwhelmed with excitement, and called Nathanael saying, "
we have found the promised One, the son of Joseph!" Obviously he got some of his facts wrong, but he got the important points, and that's what really matters. Too bad Lee decided to defend the indefensible, declaring war on all of Christianity, instead of just claiming the same inspirational license that every preacher benefits from, yanking phrases out of context to make his point.