Putting to Test the Recovery Version

[aron]

Originally Posted by OBW

I do not say that there is nothing true in this footnote. But its primary thrust creates a false sense of our part in the process of living righteously. Lee has made some necessary component that Christians can miss out of something that they always have. Jesus did not say to believe in Him and keep digging inward to find Him and sin no more. He said to go and sin no more. I think that Peter's "you have everything you need" statement sums it up nicely. We have it. We don't need to figure out how to exercise out spirit, but how to exercise ourselves unto righteousness.

I think Lee mis-aims twice. Neither of the mis-aimings are of themselves wrong, but are not the point of the exercise. Lee says there are "dead letters" and "law-keepers" like the Pharisees. Then he says, there are the (NT) "kingdom people" who live by Christ. But there is a gaping hole in the middle.

You see, there was this guy named Jesus. He lived in the reality of all the pious statements of well-meaning sinners who declared fealty to God's governmental kingdom. This Obedient Son is the shining object of the whole thing. Lee segues neatly from the failed OT law-keepers to the successful NT grace-livers, missing the One in the middle who holds the whole thing together.

Paul and Peter didn't give exegeses on David's inability to fulfill his prophetic word. They noted the inability of David, true (e.g. Acts 2:29) but then said that the word was still true. Jesus filled it. Lee seems determined to miss the obvious, here.

Anyway, that's my own subjective take on his teaching. Perhaps I'm saying the same thing as OBW in the bolded part of the quote. Or similar.