Major Errors of Witness Lee’s Teaching

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.

UntoHim:

I think this is an honest, healthy and great advice that so many brothers and sisters in Christ need to hear, especially those saints that are under a “controlling system” that imparts fear like W. Lee’s local church group or similar groups. Even W. Nee said: “Blessed is the man that considers that he could be wrong”. Also, this good advice from UntoHim, reminded me of Russia, the communist government prohibited their citizens to listen to foreign radio stations and on TV they would show them Africa, their "huts" and their "starving children"; saying this is how it looks like the outside world of Russia. Then after communism collapsed, the citizens realized Russia was 50 years behind the rest of the world, so the Russian citizens started to leave Russia for a better life. Very similar to W. Lee’s group’s practice, they like to say “poor Christianity” showing only the bad examples. May the Lord shine and expose the man-made system that doesn’t belong to Him.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Also, this good advice from UntoHim, reminded me of Russia, the communist government prohibited their citizens to listen to foreign radio stations and on TV they would show them Africa, their "huts" and their "starving children"; saying this is how it looks like the outside world of Russia. Then after communism collapsed, the citizens realized Russia was 50 years behind the rest of the world, so the Russian citizens started to leave Russia for a better life. Very similar to W. Lee’s group’s practice, they like to say “poor Christianity” showing only the bad examples. May the Lord shine and expose the man-made system that doesn’t belong to Him.

As someone once said, "Tear down this wall" of fear, and then watch which way the people go.

I am not the unregistered who began this thread above. I am a newcomer. I read with interest his interpretation of the woman in Revelation. Of course it is not his and I do not do mean to imply that it is only his but just that he is writing it here. Many years ago when I first encountered the church they shared with me that the woman was the church and that the child that she brought forth was the stronger part of her. This stronger part was supposed to be the group of Overcomers in the church.

As a woman, let me say that I found this to be odd. The children that we bear are never a part of us. They are in us but they are not a part of us. I don't know a single woman who has ever said when she gave birth to a son that she gave birth to the stronger part of her. Each child has its own spirit and soul and of course its own body and its own blood supply. Two separate lives are living inside of a woman with child. Again, a baby in the womb is not a part of the woman and so she cannot say that it is the stronger part of her. This is basic biology. So saying that the church gives birth to the stronger part of her struck me as being absurd.

In the denomination that I grew up in, which was very Bible centered, we believed that the woman was interpreted for us by Joseph's dream and Jacob's following interpretation. We always believed that this woman was Israel and that the child that she gave birth to was Christ but because prophecy is pattern, this pattern would also unfold for the church at the predetermined time when the church age was over. But it would be the entire church. The weak and the strong both would go.

We believed that the dragon then turned to destroy the remnant of the Jews because his last hope is to be able to destroy the remnant before they cry out to Jesus Christ acknowledging him as Messiah thereby causing Christ to return to the Earth to deal with the Antichrist.

[Ohio]

Great post. Welcome!

I really hope you and the other unregistered could register on the forun with your own username. It would help the discussion.

I would like to hear more from you, since this is a difficult subject to understand.

[ZNPaaneah]

Thank you, this is very clear. WL seemed too focused on the "stronger" ones. What bothers me about this is that the "stronger" Christians are the "meek", they are the ones who humble themselves as a child. So it is not helpful to describe them as "the stronger ones". This description seems contrary to so much of the Bible.