God's Eternal Purpose

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Originally Posted by InChristAlone

Weren't it you who said:


The EO bishops, priests, and mystics read, but they didn't claim that they received all their knowledge only from the Spirit and the Word of God.

OK. Remember I'm basing my statements on recollection of what I heard from Witness Lee 28 to 40 years ago. So if anything I state is factually incorrect somebody please tell me. Let me clarify further. Lee admitted that he was "standing on the shoulders of others." So he did not claim that everything came from the Spirit and the Word. He claimed he had checked out everything he taught with the Spirit and the Word. But, he also claimed that he went further in terms of recovering the vision of the GEP. Did any of the EO recognized theologians claim anything like that? As far as his teaching which up to now seems similar to theosis, he did not say that he got the teaching from them but rather that after he received the teaching he read them and they confirmed it.

Do you claim that theosis comes from the Eucharist and the true Eucharist can only be partaken by the EO church members and therefore they are the only ones experiencing theosis? WL did not claim that theosis could only occur in the LRC although in many ways he implied that it was most likely to occur there if anywhere. Not everybody in the local churches was going to be an overcomer, but you had a better chance of being an overcomer if you were in the LRC.