What is God's Economy?

Nell · 02-14-2021, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Thanks. This was all discussed before. May the Lord open my eyes if there is something here.

But just to be clear, I may be unduly discounting the disobedience aspect . . . however, don't discount that God used a fruit-bearing tree. That is, something to be eaten. Lots of talk about eating that is emphasized in the Bible, right? So why is that?

Why? Because...“Descriptive passages describe what happened; they give us the historical narratives and the stories of the events that took place. Prescriptive passages give us clear commands and instructions as to how we are to live our lives.”

The operative being “clear commands.”

http://theologyfortherestofus.com/20...ible-passages/

Witness Lee built his ministry by turning descriptive biblical language into “commands”, some of which, he admitted not even he could keep, much like what you are doing with “eating”. “Eating”, in the Bible, is largely a metaphor or word picture as a means of spiritual growth.

Bill Mallon shared this with a group of us one time, and the lights came on for me. I began to look at Lee’s ministry from that perspective from that point on, asking “is this teaching based on prescriptive verses or simply describing something that happened?”

Example: Lee’s delegated authority prescriptive teaching based on the verses describing an event among Noah and his sons.

Nell

Awoken · 02-14-2021, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Nell

Example: Lee’s delegated authority prescriptive teaching based on the verses describing an event among Noah and his sons.

Or Lee's (and maybe also Nee's, and maybe also the Plymouth Brethren's) prescriptive teaching about the "ground of locality" based on a very shakily discerned descriptive pattern in the NT epistles.

Nell · 02-14-2021, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Awoken

Or Lee's (and maybe also Nee's, and maybe also the Plymouth Brethren's) prescriptive teaching about the "ground of locality" based on a very shakily discerned descriptive pattern in the NT epistles.

That too. We should start a list. There are many.