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Originally Posted by awareness
But back to Dr. Tomes. What Tomes reveals the most to me is that Lee wasn't getting his ministry from God, but from scholars and theologians from the past.
This may be why Lee's economy of God turned out to be artificial. Or something that had the appearance of a move of God but without God behind it, or doing it. Why? because Lee contrived it. God wasn't needed ... just a bunch of Bible verses, to make it sound like God. Lee was a ruse, or he was delusional. Whichever, God wasn't doing what Lee said He was doing.
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What I think that Dr. Tomes has done best (in this writing and others) is to show how narrow and selective Lee was with the references that he used. In all the Life-Study messages that I read, I could probably count on one hand the variety of references that he cited. In other words, he used the same set of references over and over.
In many cases, I think Lee's narrowness led to his absurd conclusions like the subject of whole Bible being "God's Economy". Sure it all sounds good to LC members, but Tomes has demonstrated how fragile Lee's theology really is. That's not to say Tomes is right or everyone should agree with his view. If nothing else, it just shows that there is more than one side to all these issues that are discussed. That is something that the LC negelects and even attempts to stop, that is, discussing or "exploring" a topic. Maybe that is why I appreciate Dr. Tomes writings.