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Originally Posted by Trapped
This is my problem too...I try to say these things to LCers sometimes and they are staunch defenders of Lee's view without the ability to even entertain anything else. I just got "you just don't see" as if I was short of the vision. I just thought, "I don't want to see if it means I have to suspend all logical thought".
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Psalm 119:88 "In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth". What I see in scripture is the Son of Man receiving the words of the Heavenly Father. The Son receives the word because it proceeds from the Father's mouth. The Son loves the Father and thus loves the Father's word. The Son then inhabits the Father's word to the extent that his disciples even refer to him as the Logos, the Word. We see the Obedient Son, the Lamb of God, and we are brought back to life - previously our disobedience had wiped us out.
Now, this is my interpretation, this is me saying, "this means that", which is precisely what Lee did, following Luther, Calvin, Darby et al. Interpreting scripture isn't wrong - Paul said that we each could do it (1 Cor 14:26). So I just interpreted Psalm 119:88.
But to receive Lee's interpretation as unquestionable precludes our own experience of 1 Cor 14:26. Paul said, "each one of you has", and that means me, and the person next to me. And if I want them to respect and consider my interpretation then I have to respectfully receive theirs. So any interpretation that doesn't allow other voices to come alongside doesn't deserve much respect.
When I see the law, I don't see a portrait of the law-giver, as Lee taught, but a picture of the conditions that the law addressed. If there weren't murderers and thieves running around, then the law wouldn't need to address this. Paul taught that the law entered alongside because of our transgressions.
But what I see in the Psalms, and elsewhere, is a small and despised Man, from Galilee of the gentiles, who loved God's law because it came from the Father, and this one Man's obedience then became the pathway home for the rest of us. I the disobedient gentile don't have to convert to Judaism, rather I believe into the Christ. I see Jesus before me, calling me home to the Father.
"In my Father's house there are many rooms, if it were not so, I would have told you this".
What does this have to do with the Trinity?
Igzy called it the relational aspect of God's own love. Love has a subject and an object. And love binds the two into one, and brings coherence, and even co-inherence. In the Psalmists' declaration of love for the law, not as an object in and of itself but as something from the Father's mouth to us, I see the heart of Jesus Christ. Psalm 119 alone has probably a dozen such utterances. Based on such love, Jesus' love for the disciples was not vain, but led them to eternal life.
"Peter, I have prayed for you, and you will turn, and strengthen the brothers".