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Originally Posted by cityonahill
If this was the central theme of the NT, then why didn't Paul and others speak of divine-dispensing and all the other WL terms of "proper" Christian living according to God's economy???...
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While it is true that Paul (the one in the Bible) spoke of God's "oikonomia," it is not a concept that one should need the "interpreted word" in order to understand. In fact, Paul said he was commissioned, as a steward to:
make plain the oikonomia of the mystery (Eph 3:9)
Make plain. The teaching that we need the "interpreted word" etc... to understand "God's economy" basically implies that Paul failed in his stewardship because he failed to "make it plain" what the oikonomia was.
Witness Lee is needed because Paul failed in his stewardship. That's the implication, isn't it?
Peter