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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi everyone! I have been in the LC for about ten years and am now a college student. I am in the process of leaving (I will tell my story another time).

No too long ago I have taken an FTT online course on the Bible. Most of the course was how we should "use" the Bible for the "Triune God's revelation and His move." Anyways... imo what WL defines as the "divine concept" is something that fits into "God's economy" or "God's move" or "Lord's Recovery." I felt extremely uncomfortable about this, but I was being forced to regurgitate and internalize the information. I did not question why we even should categorize the Bible in this way or why WL should have the authority to define this. Also, he seemed to have built his "credibility" for his viewpoint on the Book of Psalms and James by simply stating not every word in the Bible is God's speaking. While I agree not every word in the Bible is spoken by God, there is no basis to make further conclusions about whole books in the Bible! See below for an excerpt from one of the lessons:

"The distinction between the divine and human concept is even finer in the book of Psalms. When we read a psalm we may say, 'That is so good,' BUT WHEN WE COMPARE THE PASSAGE TO THE ETERNAL ECONOMY OF GOD, we may feel convicted and realize it is a mixture of the human and divine concepts. In the Life-study of the Psalms, Brother Lee presented and began to "FINE TUNE" the matter of the human vs. divine concept in the Scriptures.

Finally, in the Crystallization-study of the Epistle of James, BROTHER LEE ENTERED INTO THE FINEST DISCRIMINATION OF THE HUMAN AND DIVINE CONCEPTS. James may have thought that God inspired him to write the book of James so that everyone would be like him, but actually God inspired James to write 'to EXPOSE HIM IN HIS WRONG CONCEPT OF THE LAW AND HIS VAGUE VISION OF GOD'S ECONOMY' (p. 95)."

Also, I have been so judgmental of others whenever I thought they were interpreting Scriptures according to their "human concept" (whatever that means). One of my classmates in the course wrote: "The human concept is that man needs to know God's Word, that we may be able to follow God's path for us, behave in a way that brings glory to God, and be able to rightly interpret the Bible. The human concept is that man succeeds in these matters by learning right from wrong, building up his human character, and seeking God's leading through the Word." My question is, what is so "bad" or wrong about the "human concept" as WL defines it?

I took the same online course where I learned that every word in the bible is inspired by God, but not every word is the word of God (or something close to that). Kind of convenient to be able to claim you know what in the bible is really God's word so you can ignore things that don't fit your concepts. I wonder what an evangelical scholar would say about that?