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Old 04-02-2021, 07:30 PM   #8
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Default Re: Coworkers-"Reading the pure word is unbiblical and dangerous"

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However, in the case of reading the word through the lens of Lee and Nee, we are then forced to understand it through their wants and desires and not based on the words actually on the page. This is never more clearly demonstrated than when Lee would change meanings from what is clearly there, or even just dismiss what is written altogether, because of his lens of "God's economy."
Interestingly enough, I was just reading something by T. Austin Sparks where he talks about God's economy - His "old economy" (old covenant) and "new economy" (new covenant). This has been published in book form from a series of talks given in 1968 by Sparks, and I wonder when he first started speaking of God's economy.

I also wonder how many others of used that phrase. I heard a radio speaker mention the Greek word this week (oikonomia), but he then translated and used it as "administration."
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