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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Nee positively defines what the church is in his book "Normal Christian Church Life".
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According to his opinion based on the exclusion of evidence to the contrary.
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The ground of locality is what the Bible reveals - assemblies or churches (however you want to call them), are referred to by their city/locality name.
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And by region, and by the person in who's house they meet.
The real evidence of Nee's answer trying to force evidence is that when he revisited it in Further Talks, he essentially notes that there are some examples that are contrary to his city-church rule, but that they can't mean the city-church rule is wrong because of the city-church rule.
That is like saying "All cars are black. The fact that you see cars of different colors does not disprove the rule because the rule says that all cars are black. And the rule is right."
It is a serious logical error. The error (under many names) in which the evidence against a proposition is dismissed because the proposition is presumed correct. It is a variant on begging the question in which an unsupported statement is made and then used to refute and/or dismiss evidence against it.
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Within a city are not merely "multiple assemblies" as some here claim. Christians don't just "go to a building" they go to a building with a name, that was founded by a particular organization . . . .
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And if that is really a problem for Christianity, then Nee, followed by Lee and his other coworkers, simply added to the number of buildings housing assemblies with names. That they claim theirs is not a name but merely a description is hardly meaningful when using any other moniker format but theirs is dismissed as error. And if someone is already using their non-name name, they figure out how to get around it so they can use it anyway.
You are not the first to come here thinking that the doctrine of dirt (not found in the Bible) is the key to Christian unity and that it is only found in the churches that follow Lee. Oddly, even those following the doctrine of dirt are dividing among themselves. And suing each other.
And it is the "original" that is the most egregious in the lawsuit category.
So the "right" church is the most "wrong."
Go figure.