Witness Lee has Seven Gods

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Originally Posted by Terry

I have found the ministry as published by Living Stream is not comprehensive as the publisher's employees make it out to be. Rather the ministry is at times expedient and at other times bypassing scripture that it is not considered profitable...

Here is another example of bypassing, downplaying, ignoring, or explaining away scripture. In Hebrews 10:10, the author speaks of the offering of the body of Jesus Christ as "once and for all" eliminating the need for sacrifices of animal blood. Hebrews 10 also quotes Psalm 40:6-8, from the Greek Septuagint (the prevailing text at that time), which includes the phrase "a body you have prepared for me".

In the Recovery Version, in Psalm 40 they use the Masoretic text, which didn't exist until several hundred years after the time of the NT's composition, and which says "ears you have dug (i.e. opened) for me". The RcV footnotes on Psalm 40 say that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews changed the Psalm 40 text to say "a body you have prepared for me", because it fit his argument of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Either this is really sloppy scholarship, or I don't know what. I hesitate to think what could have provoked such a statement. Let me continue to ask: did any church father teach such things? Or is "Watchman Nee = Witness Lee = the teaching and fellowship of the apostles" our guide for accepting this statement?

All they needed to say was "The Septuagint (LXX) version reads ..." End of story. Instead we get this strange soft-shoe dance about how digging an ear equated to boring a hole in the servant's ear, relating to obedience. Now, maybe this is so, maybe not, but all we know for sure is that "Brother Lee said". At its most rudimentary level (i.e. LXX vs Masoretic textual sources) the "Brother Lee said" approach misses the mark. Instead we get: The author of Hebrews modified the OT text to suit his/her argument???