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Originally Posted by aron
Witness Lee ran a comprehensive social conditioning programme where thinking, which is not only our God-given right but also our duty, was considered tantamount to rebellion.
If anyone sat down and tried to figure things out for themselves, they were considered dangerous subversives and a threat to godly order, being variously called independent, divisive, factional, and ambitious.
And Watchman Nee was lauded, lionized even, for doing exactly that. Yet for us it was forbidden.
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This was exactly my experience. I remember reading one of the Psalms once in a small group. I wondered, as in saying, " I wonder..." if what the footnote said about there being some Psalms that were written according to the human concept and some according to the spiritual one worked in the Psalm we were talking about. Immediately, a sister jumped in and said, "that's what the footnote says and that's how I understand it. There are two lines in the Psalms... it's right there". And then I said, "Or...it's not." I received a mixed bag of looks that ranged from daggers to confusion.
I always remember the verses where the Lord REASONS with people, where Paul REASONS with people.