Witness Lee has Seven Gods

[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

The title of this thread is... not really serious. I don't know how many Gods Lee had.

I know that by entertaining the idea that the "seven spirits before the throne" are in fact seven separate spirits (i.e. angels), then I am the one open to the charge of having seven Gods. So perhaps the title is doubly unfortunate. That is where having a sense of humour will get you!

Really; I don't know the answer. Don't know if anyone can answer it definitively. But if we really do care about the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, then we should take seriously the writings of those who came before (especially, I aver, those whose ministry closely followed after the apostles).

Another example that bothers me is in Psalm 34:4, where David said "The LORD delivered me" from Abimilech king of the Philistines. Witness Lee said, No, David rescued himself. My reply is, Okay; when David told Saul in 1 Samuel 17:37 that the Lord delivered him (David) from the lion and the bear, and would also deliver him from the Philistine giant Goliath, was he also in error? Did David deliver himself from the lion and the bear, and from the hand of Goliath? Or did God deliver him? And if so there, why not also from Abimilech?

So I come back to the question: from where did Lee get this interpretation, this reading? His (fallen, natural) human logic? Any other teachers out there dismissing David's words thusly? Or is Lee's opinion, standing alone, here equivalent to the "teaching and fellowship of the apostles"?