The book of James and the LRC

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Ohio

I also like the maxim that here in Acts 1.26 the biblical record is descriptive, but not prescriptive.

Such was the case of Nee's "local ground" teachings. Yes, Revelations 2-3 are descriptive concerning "one church / one city," but the Bible is completely silent concerning this in a prescriptive way. One makes this teaching even more onerous is the obvious contradictions which exist in the plain text of the New Testament.

Just so I'm clear, some parts of the Bible are descriptive, not prescriptive. So the fact that Judas went and hung himself is merely telling me what happened and not recommending that I do the same. This principle applies to the verses that WN and WL use to build their teaching about "the ground of oneness". None of the verses used were prescriptive, they were descriptive yet WN and WL, blissfully unaware of this maxim used these verses to prescribe a very critical teaching.

However, when it came to dissing parts of the Bible WL didn't like, say Proverbs, or Psalms, or James, or Job then all of a sudden he is misapplying this principle, talking about how some verses in the Bible are descriptive not prescriptive, and then applying it to verses that are prescriptive.

So then he ignores a basic principle when it is inconvenient, and in other places completely misapplies it to force his square peg doctrine into a round hole.

Now I can see saying that this is evidence that WN was a poor Bible teacher, fair enough, but for WL isn't this proof he was a false teacher?