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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Where is anything from this Nee quote directly related to the Bible? Not one verse is quoted. And there is a reason that not one verse is quoted - because Nee was not speaking from a biblical perspective but rather from some perspective apart from the Bible. What that perspective was is anybody's guess. The man has been dead and gone for about 43 years now and we will never know what he was actually talking about. This quote sounds more like Confusious than anything in the Bible.
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And this is the reason that I have been harping on the lack of scripture in both Nee, and especially Lee's messages/books. They "litter" their words with scripture for a portion. We are captured by the amount of references from all over the place. But when it comes to actually providing some real meat to their message, the scripture is suddenly missing. It has gone AWOL. But because we have seen a lot of scripture, it never dawned on us that what is now being said had no connection to any scripture, unless you count that the last 30 minutes has been full of scripture that has nothing to do with the present speaking — speaking that is the reason the whole message/chapter is there for our consideration.
But we didn't consider. We were too snowed by the awesome amount of scripture. Too bad it so often really had nothing to do with the message.
And instead we get their elevation of the Chinese/Oriental culture. I am not saying that there is anything particularly wrong with Chinese culture. Just like American culture it has its strong points and its weak points. But neither is simply God's way. Both are man's way.