Re: Witness Lee on Watchman Nee
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Originally Posted by Freedom
When I think about it, it seems WL was playing upon the elders’ gratitude towards Nee. Obviously, they appreciated him, but they were also willing to cease their dealings with him. WL basically instilled a sense of guilt in to each one of them, and succeeded in getting them to once again line up behind Nee. He did it very deceptively.
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Lee's only scriptural appeal here was to the "drunken Noah" case in Genesis (not sure where did Jesus or Paul reference "drunken Noah" as superseding NT righteousness?), to the elders' "debt" and to the elders "feeling" and "real sensation". Their culturally-based feeling of shame as the Top Dog fell, was allowed to over-ride clear dictates of NT scripture. And the pentacostal, sensual-based church experience - "How did you feel" - suborning the plain words of scripture abets the socially-driven imperative.
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