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Originally Posted by zeek

I don't think that was his intention. Once you get away from dogma which is supported by some kind of authoritative structure, there are choices.

Linguistic-historical interpretation is always going to be more or less probable not absolute. So it will never be final in the way that dogma is. The catholic church has its creeds, Witness Lee made himself the one voice that could be heard in the Local Churches.

You have stated that it is all a matter of who you listen to. But, how does one decide that?

Anyway, it would be nice if we could get away from always having to depend on some expert to tell us what the Bible really means and get back to letting the words speak to us directly. Maybe what the experts tell us the Bible really means is less important than hearing God speak to us through it. Even though we don't have the original manuscripts or whatever, that still may be possible. Maybe we can get back to that.

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