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Originally Posted by aron
Now, my point in all of this isn't to say Brother Lee was wrong and I'm right. But there's probably more scriptural support for my position than for his. I can think of 4 whole chapters by Paul (1 Cor 15, Rom 15, 2 Cor 7,8) that are focused on this theme. Not to mention the climax of Galatians 2 and the bulk of Acts.
The two positions aren't "right" or "wrong" per se, but Brother Lee simply said, "God's economy is such-and-such" even when Paul never defined it that way. Lee's position was his conceptual overlay on scripture, and I've briefly outlined my alternative...
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If God's economy per Witness Lee was what Paul meant in 1 Timothy 1, wouldn't there be some explanation by Paul corroborating this? Instead it was conceptual fabrication by WL. There's more textual support by Paul on "continue to remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do" (Gal 2:10) and "he who had abundance had no excess and he with little had no lack" (2 Cor 8:15) than there for "eating the processed and consummated Triune God to become God in life and nature."
WL made his idea the cornerstone of his ministry, but if Paul did likewise, he surely didn't do so in writing.