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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
I don't because I don't read Nee or Lee's works anymore. But the Nee books sold by LSM have LSM trademark all over it.
There are many believers outside the LSM that have never been in the LSM or LC and have never heard of Witness Lee that have read Nee's books. The Nee books sold at the local Christian bookstores come from Christian Fellowship Publishers which are not related to LSM or Lee in any way, shape or form.
LSM or Lee is not mentioned in them. But repeating myself, the Nee books sold by LSM have Lee's fingerprints and LSM's prints all over them. I think they have taken a couple of things out that are mentioned in the other publishers' books.
Since I keep a very, very long arm's distance from the LSM or Lee, I would read CFP's books on Nee over LSM's books on Nee.
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Sorry, but long before Hsu came out with her book, I began to see that Nee's work was different from Lee's only in its lack of extreme. Even the best of his strictly inner-life books, while overall seeming good, are nuanced toward the very things that Lee pushed openly and we now stand opposed to.
My findings were that he too often began into a new topic with faulty logic and rhetorical devices to hide them, then once the reader is on board, he moves forward into realms that would not stand if the opening errors were removed.
Now I realize that writers always want you to accept what they have to read. So I am not chastising Nee for that. But when any writer does that, you have to pay special attention to anything that seems out of place or makes you go "huh?" Or when there are contradictory verses and they are dismissed because they seem to contradict the rule that you have already established (essentially what he did when he dismissed the house churches in
Further Talks). And I read Sit Walk Stand a few years back now and it was full of "wait for the dispensing" — just not stated that bluntly. But if you have to sit before you should move on to walk, and then have to walk before you are able to stand, then . . . . Seems to be like waiting for something more before moving on. And unlike having everything we need for life and Godliness.
I realize that Lee's notes for the creation of Nee's books will be different from those of others. But that is less troublesome to me than it used to be because I no longer see a need to have a "good" version of Nee.