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Originally Posted by awareness
Theodicy is a bombshell word. Atheists use it to disprove God altogether.
And unless we can tie it into Nee, Lee, & the LRC, it's prolly off topic on this forum. UntoHim can clear that up.
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Off topic?? Did I just get that from awareness?
Certainly I meant to be somewhat provocative, but not disrespectful nor sacrilegious. Theodicy means to justify God, and I was trying to justify the ways of God's spirit (with the humorous wink at a creature trying to justify its creator).
How this relates to Lee is his ideas of the Spirit being "inclusive" and "intensified". I say that the Spirit was already inclusive in John 1:51, to include angels ascending and descending, and already intensified on the mountain in Exodus, when Moses saw 7 spirits burning before the throne. Again, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that you saw on the holy mountain." Thus, a seven-branched candlestick was constructed. Paul can tell us in his epistles "there is one Spirit", but nevertheless Moses' candlestick has seven branches. That's what I see John saying in Revelation 1:4, 4:5, and 5:6. The heavenly scene had seven flames of fire burning. The candlestick joins the seven lamps and connects heaven to earth. Angels/oil/Spirit flows up and down. That is "the way of the Spirit".
These are all just thought pictures, not provably "right" or "wrong". But they certainly are viable as thoughts, and topical to this particular ex-LCer's spiritual walk.