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Originally Posted by awareness
This is more evidence that this story is being written long after the fact, and the writer is writing his cultural rules into the text.
The question is why. Why is the Noah story being written in such a way?
Is it as Lee claimed? Was the writer even thinking of authority? Is the Noah story -- in the writers mind -- some kind of lesson of "deputy authority?" ; to be used thousands of years later -- as a cargo cult method -- to bring the cargo (blessings) down from God?
Does God require such methods? Has God been waiting for someone to figure out the combination lock -- a hierarchy of authority -- before He's gonna open up the floodgates of His blessings? Is that really the right method to prepare the bride for the bridegroom ... a cargo cult method? Who's fooling who here?
Does anyone else see the absurdity of using the Noah story to support a man structured authority system? Isn't this, in the end, just an effort to use the Bible, to convince believers your top down church governance is Bible based, and from God? It looks to me to be a slick sleight of hand, and mind, trick.
But if you're a sincere believer, seeking to be committed and absolute for "God's eternal purpose," it's a easy sell. And it works/ed.
Look, there's lot's of suckers out there. When it comes to religion it's obvious us humans will fall for anything.
And that's what is happening for the local church. Lee tapped into this inclination, this weakness (I had it). But Lee is possibly today's Joseph Smith Jr. Will his movement become as large and successful as the Mormon church? Time will tell ... but I doubt it.
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"Cultural rules" notwithstanding, I don't think the issue is the way the Biblical account was
written. The issue is the way men have
interpreted the Bible. Maybe that's what you meant, but just to clarify...
Lee/Nee did what they did and the results are before us. We know Genesis 9
was written by God and penned by, probably, Moses....the same guy who penned the 10 Commandments. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are generally known as the books of Moses. Of course, there's always discussion and disagreement, but that's another topic and beyond the scope of this discussion. I'm going with Moses. So we can't know the order in which these books were penned or the scribe who penned them with absolute certainty, but it was likely Moses and likely chronological.
More importantly, we know that in the mind and heart of the eternal God, honoring your father and your mother was always there. As such, the Noah/Ham account in Genesis 9 is consistent with Mosaic Law which was yet to be given. That's what I believe.
Early on, Witness Lee taught something I still appreciate. You have to study the Bible
with the Bible. I believe he got that right.
Nell