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1. Witness Lee's teaching is chock-full of errors, as this website makes amply plain. We should keep this in mind as we examine his critiques of James, and others.
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I find the term "chock-full" to be far too vague. I would agree that "the ground of the church" doctrine has errors. I would also agree that the MOTA teaching has errors. However, the MOTA doctrine is incredibly sparse in WL's ministry. I say "incredibly" because I heard it very often in Houston, in Irving and on this forum, yet in his written ministry it is a very minor reference. Finally, WL taught that some books lacked the "divine revelation". Books that he focused this criticism on were Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and James. I find that teaching to be personally offensive, but not uncommon among other Bible teachers. Therefore it is arrogant of me to assume that I only have the truth any more than it was for WL. I would find it more helpful if we actually had a list of errors that were commonly accepted on this forum. I am not familiar with any other errors in his teaching that are commonly accepted on this forum.
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2. The Bible makes plain what is revelatory and what is error. No need of a special apostolic decoder ring.
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Then what meantheth this bleating of manifold Bible expositors in my ear?
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3. I never said "all equal". I'm saying that some teachers like WL dismiss scripture like James & Psalms on the flimsiest of pretexts. The scripture itself doesn't make these judgments, yet WL boldly does so. Shouldn't we be good 'bereans' and challenge whether this is so, and if so, on what merits?
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No, you didn't say it, but Peter said "like precious faith". If each of these books contains the faith of Christ it is "like precious".
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To ignore scripture is peril. Leaf through your RecV, sometime. Page after page of Psalms with nary a note, even a cross-reference, even when dozens lie waiting to be found. Then ask yourself which has more value to you- the Bible or the ministry of its exposition? And, what basis do you have that the writers and speakers of the NT, starting with Jesus, held such a view? I see no evidence for it in the NT, rather the opposite. Yet the exposition of WL imposes it on the text.
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For all the errors we can claim WL had, "ignoring scripture" in his teaching is not one of them. He did a verse by verse exegesis of the entire Bible.