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Originally Posted by awareness

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.

Lee's idea of an organic Body of Christ is based on John 15 where Jesus says "I am the vine you are the branches..." I don't see that being incompatible with the Net Bible's exegesis of Colossians 3:15. Most of Watchman Nee's and Witness Lee's teachings could have been maintained without creating division had it not been for Lee's sectarian spirit. Instead of holding his doctrines with humility he saw himself as being unique. All other Christian organizations were merely human. Lee supposed that his group was uniquely of God.