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Originally Posted by googlelight
...Isnt this a teaching that actually encourage cover-ups?
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Yes. I see a BIG problem.
The actual verses aren't a "teaching" at all. The verses are a
description.
I think this was the best thing I ever learned from Bill Mallon regarding studying and understanding the Bible. Something like this:
- Descriptive passages describe what happened; they give us the historical narratives and the stories of the events that took place.
- Prescriptive passages give us clear commands and instructions as to how we are to live our lives.
- When we misunderstand the style of writing we run the risk of misunderstanding the character and nature of God.
- We should primarily build our doctrine on prescriptive passages and then supplement that doctrine with the overall themes and trends and patterns that we learn from descriptive Biblical passages.
- We should avoid building our doctrine on individual descriptive passages that describe individual events.
- Are there any other passages from scripture that give us equally clear commands and instructions confirming the "teaching" in question?
Witness Lee built his ministry by misapplying
descriptive scripture. FORGET what Witness Lee, or any other Christian teacher taught. Witness Lee taught us to misunderstand the character and nature of God...did he not? Check the scripture. Is the referenced scripture below actually a description of something that happened, or was it the foundation for a doctrine which gives
clear commands and instructions which prescribe how we are to live our lives regarding Noah and authority?
What are the clear commands and instructions in the following passage?
Gen. 9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
After you check out Genesis 9, check out another example: Lee's foundation scriptures for "One church, One city."
Witness Lee's ministry could unravel if we put it to the sniff test of descriptive v. prescriptive. Lee, in the early days, actually told us "Study the Bible WITH the Bible." He stopped doing that.
Nell