[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Raptor

Can you show me the scriptural basis that teaches us that to understand the word of God we need to rely on what has been taught throughout church history?

This is circular reasoning, but I'll try to answer the best I can.

First of all...and this should be painfully obvious....Church history had not taken place yet when the apostles wrote the NT. It's like asking me to show where DNA was discussed in the research of 18th century scientists.

Contemporary Christian orthodoxy is built upon the orthodoxy of the past few centuries. And the Christian orthodoxy was build upon the orthodoxy from previous generations and centuries. And if we dig back far enough, as noted by Acolyte4236, we can trace a line of orthodoxy proceeding from the earliest of 2nd generation teachers, scholars and apologists. Some have dubbed these as "the church fathers", who who are believed to have personally known some of the twelve apostles, or to have been significantly influenced by them. And there is a traceable line of orthodoxy that proceeds from there. So by the time we get to the earliest of the ecumenical councils and formations of the earliest creeds and statements of faith, we find that they were not inventing new doctrines or teachings, but only reaffirming and reiterating what was passed down from the scripture writing apostles.

As I noted before, Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, like so many false teachers before them, decided that would make a conscientious departing from Christian orthodoxy. Witness Lee taught us that "Protestantism is Christless". He taught that orthodox Christian teaching regarding the Trinity was "grossly inadequate and borders on tritheism". Is there any doubt that these "co-workers in the Lord's Recovery" have continued on with these absurd notions? Look at today's quote. These guys really think that we don't know what Witness Lee really taught. Their statement regarding the Triune God as posted at ShepherdingWords.Com belies the fact that Witness Lee clearly taught modalism. Anybody can easily and quickly confirm this by doing the most basic search of the quotes of Witness Lee. Seriously, how many nanoseconds can it take to discover that Lee taught that "the entire Godhead, the Triune God, became flesh"
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