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[aron]

Originally Posted by A2Z

This A2Z thread is definitely a reaction to Greg and Jo Casteel's sufferings. It was first stuck into the 'soapbox' corner, but Admin moved it. May be it should live in 'soapbox' ...

Everyone has a voice. It's encouraging to see more and more are exercising their God-given rights to speak up. Witness Lee nullified the functions of the saints by coercing them to say, "Amen, amen" even when his speaking was against common sense, against scripture, and against our conscience.

In my case, they told us to ignore the poor. I objected.

They exalted former women leaders and refused women to function today. I said, this is hypocrisy and inconsistency.

They rejected much of the Psalms as "fallen" and "natural" which is against the NT pattern of reception & practice. I say this has no basis.

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by aron

They rejected much of the Psalms as "fallen" and "natural" which is against the NT pattern of reception & practice. I say this has no basis.

Tell me more about how they did that please.

[aron]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Tell me more about how they did that please.

I started a thread on the 'apologetics' section called "The Psalms are the word of Christ". There are over 800 posts but if you read the first 35 or so, you'll get the idea. The Psalms were repeatedly cited in the NT as indicative of the experiences of Jesus. But unless forced by explicit citation, RecV footnotes stress the psalm-writers' sinful status as invalidating textual claims of fidelity and divine reward.

But I replied that the NT stresses Jesus' fidelity and the divine reward: "God has raised him from the dead and given him glory" - see Peter on Psalm 16, in Acts 3. The entire NT continues this. Paul called the Psalms the "word of Christ" and twice encouraged their singing, in Col. 3 and Eph. 5. But Lee panned this, and said we should instead sing verses from Colossians and Ephesians!

I found all this to be a remarkable deviation from the NT pattern.