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Originally Posted by least
"corrupt people made the ephah small and the shekel large and falsified the balances for deceit" according to WL were small matters.
"execute justice and love lovingkindness" and "walk humbly with your God" to WL were surely according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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least,
this shows WL's denigration of scripture didn't stop with the Psalms, James, Jude, Peter, Job, and Proverbs. Apparently the minor prophets also didn't get it, either. Where in the NT reception is the precedence for such assessments of scripture? No, we repeatedly find the opposite. "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Where does the NT begin to suggest dismissing scripture on such vast scale?
And if Lee was so enamored of finding Christ, how about that Jesus was the One who walked humbly with God? Jesus was the One whose heart was pure? Jesus was the One in whom the Father delighted? Jesus who trusted in the Father, who then raised Him from the pangs of death? Our faith is not in ourselves, but in Him - His life, His works, His righteousness, His purity, His love, and yes His faith. The NT apostles clearly indicated this, over and over. This prophetic utterance was concerning Christ, not merely the vain self-reflection of some pious OT saint in his natural concepts. By faith, this Jesus then becomes our life, our hope, our faith, our testimony, and our journey.
Lastly, Lee did like saying that we need to be this and that. All sorts of requirements were placed upon our character and person, as NT believers enjoying grace. Any HWFMR outline is full of "must's" and "need to's" and "have to's" and "should's" and "ought to's" ... but all this supposed NT 'enjoyment' and 'reality' was not built upon faith in Jesus Christ, because the justice, humility, and loving-kindness in the OT scripture, all arguably pointing to God's coming Christ, had been summarily dismissed.