[OBW]

Tim,

You missed my first pass at a response. Unfortunately, something happened and it disappeared off my screen before I could submit it.

While I understand the notions that some, including Lee/Nee say about this parable, I note that it does not say the kingdom of God is like a lump of dough into which a woman added yeast. It says it is like yeast which a woman put into flour. Linguistics are important. Lee did a terrible job at linguistics.

The problem is that to say it the other way is to ignore the clear words and substitute others. That is what Lee did too much of the time.

But what you missed from my alternate (and not submitted) post was that negative cannot be added to the kingdom of God. The "church" which is the gathering of believers (and probably others) and has teachings about whatever gets taught may have negative things added to it. But that is not the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is not subject to corruption. Man's practices as they seek to align with that kingdom may be corrupted. But the kingdom is not.

It is for this reason that I reject that line of thought. When I said I saw your point in the previous post, it was not meant in jest. But as I looked closer at the verses, I could not make them align with that kind of thinking. So what do we do? Lee would have said something like "it's the economy of God, so it must mean what I say" (being a little facetious there).