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Originally Posted by Igzy
If Lee had left it at that bit of advice it would have been fine. But he took that and ran off the cliff with it--leading to several major errors, including de-emphasizing or downright denying the plain word of the Bible in favor of "God's economy," and creating a culture which did the same. This in turn led to other errors, such as doubting one's reasoning capabilities for the "feeling of the Body," and so forth. Add to that all the speculative details about spirit, soul, conscience, fellowship, intuition, heart, inner man, yada yada, which were more cases of Nee and Lee squinting at the Bible and seeing things that actually made them and us myopic. We thought we had an understanding of this "inner life/God's economy" thing that we really didn't have. We were hearing music that wasn't being played.
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I neglected to point out that Witness Lee's so-called fallacies are not uniquely his. Do a search of websites and blogs about the "new" Greek (post-1960) and the same list of fallacies crop up on almost all of them, somewhere between 12 and 15. So the basic "errors" are not in dispute.
My problem is the result and we cannot blame his Greek errors for that since many other expositors made exactly the same mistakes.
He managed to attract a wide range of people to follow him and his teachings, from astrophysicists to treehuggers, and all turned out the same: without natural love for other believers, suspicious of other believers, enemies of other believers, opposers of other believers …
Now what then is the reason for that, seeing that we have eliminated Greek etymological fallacies as the source?