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I've got to disagree. If the Spirit witnesses with our spirit, then they are not mingled, or in any way a single spirit. Unless you are seriously bipolar, you never disagree with yourself. A single, mingled spirit could never do anything but agree with itself. Therefore it would be irrelevant to say that they agree with each other since it is to say that it agrees with itself.

I sure hope so.

But since there is stated a sense of agreement, they must not be the same, but rather two that are (at least at times) "on the same page" about things.

So there is a distinction that is never obliterated in the "tea" of mingling.

Besides, what is the basis that Lee gives for claiming they are mingled? It is either that he says it is so, or the fact that they agree.

If we rely on the fact that Lee said it without a further thought, then we have abandoned the reasoning that the Bible provides that would actually argue otherwise.

If we rely on the fact that they agree, then does that mean that every two persons that agree on something are "mingled"? Consider that the verse does not say that the Spirit and our spirit are in sync on everything you can imagine. Rather it is a specific thing — that we are the sons of God.

And then the fact that you can make arguments that certain verses are vague as to whether it is the Spirit or our spirit, or possibly both together does not cause the Spirit and our spirit to be joined in such a way that they cannot be separated or distinguished in the way that Lee argues in his teaching of "mingling."

Even statements like "he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit" does not necessarily denote anything about the combining of the things that we call "the Spirit" and "our spirit." "Spirit" (not the Holy Spirit) denotes much more than a so-called "organ of the human being or the "third" of the Trinity. It is also a reference to a unity of thought and mind. It is even a reference to a way of living or acting. A "spirit of camaraderie" denotes a unity of purpose, direction, intent, etc. So being one spirit with the Lord is at least partly about becoming aligned with his ways, purposes, etc.

(And don't even bother bringing up "God's eternal purpose" as taught by Lee. There is not really much supporting that particular teaching. It sounds good. It seems spiritual. But it is really little more than the labeling of Lee's errant teachings in a way that cannot be fought against without seeming to fight against God.)

Lee boils everything down to a single definition, therefore he is busy using a form of equivocation to mislead. "Spirit" denotes so many things. But for Lee, the word is very singular in meaning, therefore whatever the particular verse is actually about can be rewritten according to his misdirection to a different meaning of the word.