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Originally Posted by awareness
I'm pretty sure I saved the video of WL admitting that what he did he did mostly with the natural man.
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Besides his well-known repentance in 1997, WL also had a very heartfelt confession to the LC back in May of 1994 (word-for-word transcription from the audio):
"Do you believe whatever I have been, Witness Lee, have been the past 32 years in the U.S. has been in resurrection? Even I myself don’t believe so. I have to admit, even shamefully before you all, and I have to ask you for your forgiveness. Bigger part in my natural life. Small part in resurrection. I do not deny and I can not deny - I was carrying out the Lord’s ministry, especially the ministry of life to establish churches. I can not deny. Some part is in resurrection. But not all parts. Could you agree with me? Right? Answer this!" (Practical Points Concerning Blending, Message 2)
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And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (John 17:3 NKJV)
Jesus, before he was betrayed was praying to the Father and said these words which John recorded concerning eternal life. For WL to say that he was carrying out the ministry of life, yet create a practice that ignored the Father, means he missed at least half of the equation. Jesus labored to be sure we understood the paramount importance of knowing the Father, and here, he calls the Father the only true God. The understanding that we can call God our Father and that He sent Jesus Christ is the gospel! WL was actually an enemy of the gospel in that he set up a false system of belief and practice. To say that he was often in the natural man is a gross understatement.