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Originally Posted by Ohio
Evangelical's qualifiers are all natural opinions based on common sense, human logic, past experiences, or contrived numbers from the Bible.
Hey, what about 144,000? That's a great number!
The problem is that Evangelical's qualifiers are all in the natural realm, but the real church is spiritual. Evangelical has to fight this to the bitter end just because Lee said so. Lee said 2 or 3 cannot be the church, so it must be so!
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The ground of the church doctrine collapses if
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
refers to a local church. In this verse there is no city boundary, rather it is "wherever". In this verse there is no requirement for Witness Lee appointed elders. There is no hokey "taking the ground" ceremony. Everything he has built his Christian life on is nothing but sinking sand unless he can prove you need something else besides the Lord's presence.