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Originally Posted by zeek
Well Colossians 3:15 says "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in the one body and be thankful." So Lee wasn't wrong that the body of Christ is what the passage is about.
The problem I have with Lee's argument is that after condemning everything human whether it be religion or philosophy or organization, and then finding that there was a new humanity in Christ, he excludes Christianity from the new humanity and reserves it only for his group-- the local church. That to me demonstrates Witness Lee's sectarian spirit.
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I offered that footnote from the NET Bible to show another interpretation of Col. 3:10, by the 20 hefty scholars that produced that new translation.
And I don't think that Col. 3:15 supports Lee's interpretation. There's no mention in that verse of the "organic" body ; that is a Lee extra-Biblical word, that appears nowhere in any translations of the entire Bible ; it's a Lee figment.
In fact, the following verses after v 10, and up to and including v 15, supports the NET interpretation, as it details what to take off and put on.
Moreover, that the new man "is renewed in knowledge" doesn't seem to apply to the church, but to the individual subjective experience.
Plus 3:15 is speaking to "your" and "you" that's been called.
Col 3:15 Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body
Of course, Lee's interpretation supports his sectarian agenda, that his following was/is the organic body of Christ.
Lee dismisses the translators of the NET Bible, as outside the organic body of Christ. They're in the inorganic false body, that's full of only human, Jewish, Greek, organisation.
And last but not least, Lee's translation has more footnotes in it than those human translators of the NET Bible do. Haha.