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Originally Posted by Evangelical
If you think we can do things for God without God, makes me wonder why God gave us the Holy Spirit, and spiritual gifts etc. And why Jesus said:
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I don't think that and I didn't say that. I said that Witness Lee defines religion as meaning that, but it doesn't mean that. Read the New Testament, the term is defined in the New Testament and it does not mean that.
According to James "religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation".
Now as you point out, according to Jesus "apart from Me you can do nothing".
Therefore a logical person would put these two together to say that the New Testament defines religion as a "looking after orphans and widows in their tribulation by being joined to Jesus as the vine in obedience to the Lord's command to love your neighbor as yourself".
It is very alarming to me that Witness Lee felt it necessary to denigrate this term.