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Originally Posted by Ohio
Obviously Tomes is not writing for you.
His audience has been steeped in hidden meanings for generations, so he is struggling to bring them ... Firstly ... To read the plain words of scripture.
Secondly, his church in Toronto did not leave individually, like you did one day by the Spirit's leading, but stayed because they felt others .. Namely the Blendeds .. Had deviated from their original mission, and were attempting to have dominion over their church too.
The task of shepherding these wonderful folks, who still operate under the "good Lee, bad blended" paradigm, is to move them slowly, carefully, and scholarly, back to green pastures and still waters.
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Our brother Nigel is great, whether right or wrong, with his well thought out and researched pieces. I love 'em, even if they sometimes wear on the brain muscle to work thru. It's good exercise.
But I don't know if this piece brings more answers than questions.
With all these questions about the real meaning of the Greek words I'm just more confused. If I can't figure out what the words mean then how can I trust that I'm getting at the words of God, with no traces of doubt to disturb it? To heck with synchronic's. Sure it would be nice to know what the author meant by a word, but I want more to know what God means(t) by it.
Now it seems I have to play eeny meeny miney mo, catch a Greek Textual Scholar by the toe, My momma told me to pick the very best one.
How else am I to know who is right? Some words are easy. Like Ekklesia. Sometime ago I came across that the gathering of Roman politicians were referred to as an ekklesia. They certainly weren't "'the called out ones,' from the world."
But more words are much harder than ekklesia, to get to the bottom of. And again, which scholars are right?
Why does it seem that God can't write without suffering ambiguity?
And why can't we find a sense of humor about it ... for goodness sake ... instead of fighting over the Bible?
Witness Lee's interpretation of the Bible was just one opinion among many. Grow up. Get over infantile dependencies.