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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Everyone's a follower of someone, whether they admit it or not. It is impossible to read the Bible with a neutral and unbiased mind. Born in America? Your reading of the Bible will be skewed by your American worldview. Are you African? You may interpret some parables of Jesus differently to someone would in the West, as your ideas of the family and social structure may be different. All of these things skew our interpretation of the Bible. .
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According to Lee (I'm going by memory here) Nee read all the different teachings, took the good and chucked the bad. He used different writers and ministries and views to balance each other out, and not fall into any trap of extreme or unbalanced interpretation.
So why then, aren't we accorded the same privilege in the local church of Nee and Lee? Why suddenly the One Trumpet? Why can't we take the good (assuming there is some) in the LSM and toss the bad?
Why did the age turn with Nee? Don't you think this is too subjective by half? Or even three quarters? Nee got to read everyone, and pick through, but if we tried it we'd merely get confused? Was Nee really that great?
And then, when Lee passed, no more Spiritual Giants? Only read the Great Man's words and stay in the ministry? Is this not a too hopeful and too subjective reading of the course of history?
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
What is your natural disposition? This will influence which Bible verses "stand out" to you the most, and upon which ones you like to dwell. .
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Somehow Nee avoided the natural disposition of the Chinese? Because he was raised up on the "virgin soil" of China, he could come at the Bible free from the Eurocentric worldview and finally cut straight the word of truth?
The narrative is so self-serving as to be delusional. It can only exist in the hermetically-sealed world of the local church of Nee and Lee.