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Originally Posted by Cassidy
You need to stick to the Bible here and stop chasing after what "Christian scholars" think..
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Whose Bible? The one interpreted by Nee & Lee, or the one interpreted over centuries by hundreds if not thousands of scholars, and held by millions of christians?
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Originally Posted by Cassidy
Such scholars are like economists, stack all of them end to end and they will never come to agreement...
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Number one: I disagree with this statement. There is a lot of agreement. There are of course a lot of unknowns, and much discussion, and some back and forth. But the common areas of agreement among Christian scholars greatly outweigh any differences. If there wasn't agreement, there wouldn't be discussion. Remember that we are talking about being within the common faith here, the faith held by all...
Number two: if you want to talk about never coming to agreement, try reconciling "Early Lee" with "Later Lee", or doing the same with Nee.
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Originally Posted by Cassidy
God's servants are usually misunderstood and discounted by the establishment....
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But when Lee et al could use "the establishment" suddenly they sang a different tune. See Moody Bible Institute and Christian Research Institute, for example. Suddenly "the establishment" is held up as a bastion of Christian orthodoxy.
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Originally Posted by Cassidy
it certainly is of no account what "christian scholars" think about the topic.
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Unless of course they agree with you. Then you find yourself playing golf with Hank Hanegraaf, and asking about his wife and kids.