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Originally Posted by aron
With such thoughts, WL dismissed the words of Psalm 1, and much of the book, except where NT usage required him to "see Christ". My argument is that the central point of the Bible, if there's any central point, is that there is One who is good, One who fulfilled the promises of the prophet, even though the prophet himself (Acts 2:30) may have been destined for corruption, and it's by faith in this One that all may be saved. And how can we believe, lest we hear the good news? If we dismiss the word of God as merely a contrivance of the fallen human imagination, what a loss!
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Even in my earliest LC days, there was a dismissal of Psalms and Proverbs. Lee would tell us how Psalms suits us shallow Americans, who would add the Psalms to their pocket translations of the N.T. Proverbs, however, was more fitting to the Chinese, having grown up on Confucius. Thus Lee mistreated both books, gems of wonderful worship and wisdom, substituting his own hymns and so-called words of wisdom.