"Exactly Identical" and "Mass Reproduction"
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Originally Posted by Freedom
If we say that we have certain similar attributes to God, but nothing that would interfere with who God is, then that isn't saying anything at all, because we already know that. Lets say that God has x unique attributes. If humans could posses up to x-1 of those attributes, that still wouldn't constitute being God...
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One of my remaining LC friends recently was telling me about the latest message, and he was so excited. He kept talking about "mass reproduction" and being "exactly identical." Curious: why was Witness Lee, a one-time salesman of tennis rackets, chairs and cheap men's suits, fixated on this idea of mass reproduction? The only thing I remember being mass reproduced in the Bible was the bricks in the tower of Babel. Not really a model of "God's New Testament Economy".
"It is not a school or factory, or chapel in the air", so we sang. Turns out that the "splendid church life"
is a factory, after all.
Here was the quote in question, which excited my LC contact so much:
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Originally Posted by Witness Lee
"The church is the reproduction of Christ. We can say this because the lampstand in Exodus was one, and the lampstands in Revelation are seven. The one lampstand has been reproduced. The unique lampstand in Exodus became a model, out of which came seven lampstands. The seven lampstands are exactly the same as the unique lampstand in essence, nature, shape, and in every respect...
To say that the church is the Body, the continuation, the enlargement, and the spreading of Christ is not enough. We all have to see that the church is an exact reproduction of Christ. Christ was the unique lampstand, and all the churches are the lampstands in the same essence, nature, model, shape, and function." (CWWL, 1975-1976, vol 2, The Church - the Reprint of the Spirit)
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I thought, "Why, here's an interesting thing", and said to my friend, "How can you say that the lampstands in Revelation are exactly identical with the one in Exodus? The one in Exodus had seven lamps. If the seven lampstands in Revelation each had seven lamps, there would be forty-nine lamps burning in front of the throne! But there are only seven lamps burning there!"
My friend said, "Well, other than that, they're exactly identical."
I said, "You know what? Other than that minor detail, yes; every lampstand is an exact reproduction of the Exodus lampstand."
I don't know why WL forced readings that were not there. And look at his language: "We all have to see..." It's like he's hypnotizing his audience to see something that isn't even there. Amazing.