Major Errors of Witness Lee’s Teaching

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Originally Posted by UntoHim

Why do you keep saying that ALL Jews were not sola scriptura? You could not possibly know this. Are you like Witness Lee, who claimed to be all places at all times, and knew what was taught by every Christian teacher who ever lived? (well, at least since 1945) Really? Are you that far off the deep end? You need to get out more, my friend. Read some Church history from different sources. Make some new mature, knowledgeable Christian friends that can set you straight on some of these crazy notions of yours. And most important and urgent for you - read the Bible without the filter of Local Church/Lee dogma. If you want to spout off so much about the Bereans you need to be a Berean. Why do you think they were called noble? One reason is that they were apparently good listeners. They didn't suppose that they already knew it all.
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Hi UntoHim,

I see no one here bothering to prove that Bereans were sola scriptura. That would be a remarkable thing for a Jew given most are not sola scripture. Remember to be a Berean is to "see if these things are so". Those who google and search things out like I do are more like the Bereans than those who respond with their opinions alone.

I would say the ones who used the Scripture correctly are the ones who received Paul's "footnotes" and those who didn't use it correctly were those who accepted nothing else but their own literal interpretation. The Bereans would have read and studied Paul's footnotes. Yes Paul used the Scripture but his interpretation is not readily found in the Old Testament.

What I stated about Jews and sola scriptura is a true and factual statement that can be easily Googled.

There were three main parties of Jews:
Pharisees
Sadducees
Essenes

Of these three groups, only the Sadducees regarded the Torah alone as authoritative. This did not prevent them from crucifying Christ however. It is a true and factual statement that most Jews were not sola scriptura. Jews in general accept the oral Torah as equally authoritative to the written.

But all that really matters is what kind of Jew the Bereans were. The Bereans were Greek-speaking Jews who used the Septuagint which includes a number of books not accepted as Canonical by Protestantism.
The Bereans also accepted oral teaching and traditions as equal to Scripture, they were not Sadducees.

So the situation is that the Berean Jews were not sola scriptura believers and the scripture that they used was not the same as our Old Testament - it had books which have been rejected in Protestantism as Apocrypha.

For these reasons the Berean Jews are a poor example to use
Unfortunately the myth of the "sola scriptura Bereans" has been propagated throughout protestant Christianity and accepted as unquestioned fact when historical facts reveal otherwise.