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Originally Posted by Terry
Greetings Nell, my point in this thread is not to support the teaching. So many people have bought into it as a non-essential item of faith when in fact as I answer your question, the fruit of the practice of deputy authority is division.
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Terry,
Does the fruit of a practice really dictate how to understand it? Are we really sure that the practice is the problem? Or is it something else?
My point is not to let Deputy Authority off the hook. But it could be argued that certain other issues are the cause of the fruit and that Deputy Authority could not fix it.
I wouldn't buy it, but it can be made.
The real issue is whether there is really such a construct or it is a fantasy devised first by Nee and then strengthened by Lee that just does not represent anything that the Bible actually teaches, directly or indirectly. If it is garbage teaching, then there is no reason to need to argue over what is responsible for the fruit in question. It doesn't deserve a hearing on the fruit issue. It gets booted on the truth issue.