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1. Should I throw out the recovery version (with footnotes) of the OT and NT? What version of the bible did you use before the recovery version was introduced? What do you use now?
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Personally, I would toss it. Mostly because of the footnotes. There are many good ones. But too much leaven mixed in.
They used to use the NASB (mid 70s and up to the RecV). I don't know before 1973. I now use the NIV mostly, with references to others at times, including very different translations just to break away from the same words that cause me to quit thinking.
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2. I have to admit that I was so drawn to the footnotes/interpretations of the pictures in the Bible, such as Adam and Eve (Adam being Christ and Eve being the church), Noah's ark being the Body of Christ so that all believers are saved, being perfected and becoming overcomers in the millennial kingdom while non-perfected Christians will be in outer darkness, etcetc. Do you all still see the truth in this?
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There are pictures in the Bible. But everything is not a picture. And many of the pictures that are do not align with Lee's version of what they are.
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3. The concept of "God's eternal economy is for the building of his dwelling place which will consummate in the New Jerusalem" has been wrought into my soul. For the past few months, all I think about everyday is Christ and His Body and nothing else. Are you still under the rulership of this particular heavenly vision of God's economy?
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This concept is a mixture of the truth of the term and an overlay devised to rule other scripture. We have seen from reviewing past messages by Lee that he brought up "God's economy" as the basis for dismissing portions of the Bible. Most notably James and much of the Psalms. But even Lee declares that certain commands of Jesus are null and void because of "God's economy." That should have sent Lee packing long before he made it to MOTA.
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4. Tripartite man - I was taught that understanding the spirit is the key to everything. Do you guys still "turn to your spirits" and reject the self in order to express Christ, Christ and Christ only? As an example, I was frequently taught that human improvements don't matter because only Christ fulfills the highest standard of morality, so all we need to do is "call on the name of the Lord and turn to our spirits!" I was also told that before we were saved, the soul is our person and the spirit is an organ. But after we're saved, the spirit is our person and the soul is our organ, for the purpose of expressing the spirit (Christ).
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Man has a body, soul and spirit. But it is not so well divided as Nee and Lee taught. Even Nee's verses supporting his definitions of what is the human spirit point so strongly at the soul (mind, emotion, and will) as to make the spirit more like an aspect of the soul than some separate "organ."
I need to move on now, but will return to this later.