From the thread "in the divisions He sought us", which probably should have been appended to this thread.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Supposedly Nee, who had read every book known to man, passed down an accurate record of church history to Lee. Actually, Nee's limited account was thru the prism of Western culture, that which was passed down via the British missionaries..
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History is partly parochial. It is like the vanity of limited man trying to see limitless God. Our histories' limitations should be acknowledged. But Nee's history was supposed to be all-encompassing, and thus we Westerners swallowed it as if it were not an Asian reaction to Western imperialism, but as if it were an account of reality itself.
And then we had to deal with the consequences of what we uncritically had received. "What you eat, that you eventually become."