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Originally Posted by Freedom
My question remains unanswered. If these terminologies can be equated with simpler or clearer ways to express the same concept, then why use them in the first place? What is the benefit to using elusive words?
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I cannot answer for the man himself. Some have suggested it is sinister manipulation technique, it could be his own delusion that he is a theologian because he uses big fancy words. I personally think it is to do with him looking at it from the point of view of subjectivity and giving it another name or a more lofty explanation. For example when Witness Lee says 'pray', he doesn't mean recite the Lord's prayer, or pray the words in a prayer book, like so many Christians do today. He means to have spiritual fellowship, to exercise ones spirit, not their mind or emotions. He wants to get at the core of what prayer is all about. To do so he must use different language such as "enjoying the Lord", "mingling", "exercising the spirit". I don't think it is a deliberate intent to deceive, but an attempt to explain. The English language does not have enough words in it to explain the different kinds of love or the different kinds of prayer.