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Originally Posted by aron
Caveat: WL seemed to have a Christ eye. I remember him saying, "Christ, Christ, Christ"... Christ was the boards of the ark: acacia wood overlaid with gold. Christ was the badger skin, Christ the silver sockets. Etc.
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Of course, there is some rational parallel to be made in all of those. And even to preach such from the "pulpit." But to take such things as the basis for pushing new and novel theologies as Lee did is the problem.
And when I was giving you some grief, it was not entirely to throw cold water on you. It was to put the kind of observation that you made have a little less of the kind of certainty that you seemed to want to give it. To say that the things Christ suffered could be a little like being a sheep under the care of a shepherd might be a little of a stretch, but might make a decent object lesson. But finding it as a thing definitely to be maintained as a point of teaching, or as a source of teaching about the aspects and nature of God, rather than as a soft observation of trying to parallel the life of the human sheep to aspects of the life of Christ, seems problematic. The point was never that the comparison is ridiculous, but that it is contextually, and even comparatively a bit of a stretch, therefore one of those things that could make a decent sermon, but could also send the hearer away wondering where it was that the wheels fell off.