[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Freedom

I don't feel that they provide enough scriptural support. The phrase "God's economy is to make man God in life and nature, but not in the Godhead" is well known in the LC, but where is that teaching explicitly found in the Bible? If they could simply provide more scriptural support for their teaching, I would be much less reluctant about accepting it.
If a teaching is wholly Biblical, you shouldn't have to go to the works of an obscure scholar to support it. The problem is that Lee, being held as an infallible minister, chose to support deification, so now the BB's have to scramble to find ways to also support that position.

Excellent points! And the real truth is that many of Lee's teachings cannot be substantiated by even an implicit (much, much less an explicit) reading of the teachings of Jesus or the scripture writing apostles. This is the real danger of an entire Christian movement taking the words of a self-appointed "apostle of the age" on a wholesale basis, without any kind of filtering or check and balance from other external sources.

Even the wisest of men, king Solomon, admitted: "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) It was bad enough that Lee would never accept anyone within the movement as his peer, but he even went so far to claim he was the ONLY person speaking as God's oracle on earth since 1945. And since his death, one of the most blended of the Blendeds, Benson Phillips, stated that outside of the Local Church of Witness Lee (his term was "The Lord's Recovery") there was "no great spiritual person on earth", and that "the process of sanctification takes place only in the Lord's Recovery".

So not only does the Local Church teach an inaccurate, unbiblical understanding of deification, they boldly proclaim that to go through the process of sanctification one must be a member of their little sect! How convenient! So naturally you need to purchase all the books and go to all the conferences and trainings so as to become saturated with the person and work of Witness Lee. May God have mercy.