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Originally Posted by awareness
Theology won't be needed.
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That one sentence is the key to so much of the wrangling over these things. Understanding it right does not change the underlying truth. It just changes whether we understand it or not.
Now if the thing we are trying to understand is important to whether I decide to follow Christ, and to follow in an active and ongoing way, then getting it right has some importance. But if it is just haggling over whether the rapture is pre, post, or pan tribulation (or whether the thing we call the rapture is even correctly understaood) then it does not have a bearing on my decision to actively follow and obey. So getting it right is entirely unimportant.
Now that might lead us to suggest that there is no reason to spend time discussing the docrinal errors of Nee, Lee and/or the LSM/LRC. But if the collection of errors leads someone who might believe and/or follow/obey to fail to do so, then we have problems. And those things are worthy of serious discussion and debate. Things like "don't care for right or wrong . . . just life (or just the spirit)" cause people to refrain from actively seeking obedience in their following.
And I realize that there may be no independent problem that arises from getting the Trinity wrong due to Lee's erroneous readings in 1 and 2 Corinthians, among others. But as it is part of the barrage of nonsense that lowers the logical and spiritual defenses to more serious errors, I cannot just ignore them. Every chance we get to make Lee and company out to be seen as unworthy of the status as anything higher than members of a church (and unfit to teach) is one step closer to freeing someone from the bondage to the teachings that rob them of their participation in the full experience of the Christian life.