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Originally Posted by Toledo
I come much closer to agreement with Dr. Tomes in his discussion of the book of James. Apparently, Lee felt it did not accord with his view of God's new testament economy and thus somehow was not qualified to be the word of God. I fear that Lee ventured onto much thinner ice with these remarks.
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From God creating the world to the Bridegroom receiving His Bride, the divine romance is definitely the central line of God's New Testament economy. For Lee, the focus was on the supposed nuts and bolts of dispensing and transformation. Not bad, but in many ways fundamentally short.
One brother I know forced me to repent of having taken Lee's harsh view of the epistle of James. He noted that James was in fact focused on commending to us fulfillment of the Lord's two great commandments - loving God and loving our neighbor - the biggest gap in Lee's exposition of God's economy - the practical realization of the divine love.