[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Igzy

Disobedience is, essentially, deciding you know better than God. Therefore, any disobedience is eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This upholds the more mainstream belief that it was disobedience that caused man's fall, not literal "eating."

There is a very good reason why certain interpretations become "mainstream"... it's mostly because it is the majority interpretation over many, many years from many educated and godly men and women who have studied the Word of God. Witness Lee (and before him Watchman Nee) intentionally veered from the mainstream in many major theological areas, and none have proved to be more damaging than this basic interpretation of the cause and effect of the Fall of Man.

This misinterpretation has proved to be one of the most damaging because it started Nee/Lee off on the wrong course from the very beginning. Even if their interpretation of the Fall of Man was just slightly off, it’s like when a ship starts off course just a few degrees….after thousands of miles the ship ends up hundreds of miles off course. The end results usually prove to be disastrous, and we see this with the misinterpretation of many theological notions of Witness Lee. This is the reason why we see Lee so far off track in his interpretations of in the book of Revelation - he starts off with a misinterpretation in Genesis, and he ends up compounding the errors as he goes through the rest of the Bible. By the time he gets to Revelation we find him teaching that the New Jerusalem is the ultimate “mingling of God and man”.