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Originally Posted by Igzy
I recall Witness Lee in a training saying "give up anything that makes you happy." This is the absolute, end-in-itself, losing the soul, crushing the self, perspective on bearing the cross.
It's wrong. It's unhealthy. It's not biblical. It's actually an insult to God.
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Yeah, bearing the cross to be crucified with Christ has nothing to do with "giving up anything that makes you happy". In Roman 6:6 which talks about crucifying our old man or self with Christ, the context of this verse is associated with the way to deal with our sin. Next in Galatians 2:20, our self is terminated and its context is about how to terminate our self for being liberated from the law or Judaism such as circumcision etc. But Lee distorts them at the uttermost and Lee never talks about the context of these verses.
You know that the concept of giving up anything that makes you happy or crushing your soul etc comes from Buddhism called Anatta or non-self, one of three marks of existence doctrine founded by Gotama Buddha. Learn more about it here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta
Lee's teaching concerning this is extremely heresy because he mixed the truth of Gospel with Buddhism. How sinful and apostate this teaching is. I hope my comment is helpful to all of you here.