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Originally Posted by awareness
If Kittel was a Christian so was Hitler:
Christians have a long history of killing the Jesus killers. But the Jews as Jesus killers is a myth. Jews didn't kill on crosses, they stoned to death. Jesus wasn't stoned to death. Therefore the Jews didn't kill Jesus.
Moreover, just because Kittel could expound NT Greek words doesn't make him a Christian. Kittel may have had a great mind but there was no Christian heart in him.
He's no Christian I want to be associated with. If Lee was fine with such an association he was an idiot. Obviously Lee's heart wasn't right either. To Lee high peak doctrine was so important that it didn't matter if Kittel was a Christian or not. Head was more important than heart. And that was reflected in his movement.
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Straw man fallacy. I never claimed Kittel was a Christian. That's irrelevant. I inquired about the accuracy of the book he wrote that Witness Lee referred to. As far as that issue is concerned your entire post is a fallacious ad hominem argument. Werner Von Braun was a Nazi, but that fact is irrelevant to validity of his scientific worked which helped the USA be the first to put men on the moon. I'm asking about Kittel's
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament that Lee used. I don't know that Kittel's Nazism influenced his exposition of words. Tomes argued that Kittel failed to "distinguish adequately between a word and a concept; an over-reliance on etymology, including the ‘root fallacy;’ the errors of ‘illegitimate identity transfer’ and ‘‘illegitimate totality transfer’; deciding the meaning of words independently of their use in sentences and discourse; and identifying theological thought in words, rather than word-combinations or sentences...” Those sound like technical problems. Did Tomes present evidence that Kittel's book was corrupted by Nazism? I missed that.