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Originally Posted by zeek
No that isn't what I'm saying. Sure the mistakes look funny sometimes, especially when they happen to other people. Like theology, science has made huge blunders along the way. Shall we abandon science because of the errors? Shall we abandon theology? Scientists learn from their mistakes and carry on. That's what I'm trying to do.
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Then I would advise staying away from movements, such as Witness Lee's, that are contrived and built from a piecemeal Bible.
Piecemealing the Bible has a long history of misleading the faithful, as well as fleecing the sheep. William Miller, G.H. Pember, James Ussher, Witness Lee, examples I provided, are just a few examples.
And yes Science has made blunders, but they are always trying and seeking to correct their wrongs. They don't seek to hold to their failures. They leave the failure behind. Like you say: "Scientists learn from their mistakes and carry on."
But this practice of piecemealing the Bible continues on and on, producing failures again and again. There's no learning by this mistake. If it's true when you say that: "That's what I'm trying to do." Then stay away from those that contrive systems that are based upon piecemealing the Bible.
I'd say that it is the lack of scientific thinking that's keeping development of systems based upon piecemealing the Bible alive and well ... and the faithful misled again and again.
It's only insanity that keeps us (the royal us) trying the same thing - piecemealing the Bible - over and over again, and expecting a different outcome.
And Witness Lee's GEP was based upon piecemealing the Bible.
To be honest, and personal, I fell for it. After the dead Southern Baptist church (my cradle religion) Lee's GEP was dazzling. At first it made my heart swim, and my mind glassy-eyed. And I liked how he grabbed verses from here and there to make it. I thought it was ingenious.
But I was young and foolish back then, just out on my own, seeking a Utopian ideal.
And there was lot's of love in those church days. It was the love the cinched the deal for me. But as I look back, it was the result of Lee's Bible piecemealing that took over the love, and killed it. Then a cold system was developed.
The rest is history ... thankfully.