Witness Lee and AW Tozer

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Degraded Christianity is the justification for everything that this "MOTA" does in separating himself from all other believers in the Body..

Do you believe in the degradation of Christianity? If so, then I do not take your words seriously in this matter because if you really did not believe in the degradation of Christianity then you would be a Catholic today. I say to you what I said to Ohio, if Christianity is not degraded, why are we not all Catholics today? We may as well have remained or joined Catholicism and pretend that we are not degraded. By your logic, then Martin Luther must have also caused little ones to stumble etc etc.

If you don't believe in the degradation of Christianity, then why not? Do you believe Christianity is not degraded?

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Do you believe in the degradation of Christianity? If so, then I do not take your words seriously in this matter because if you really did not believe in the degradation of Christianity then you would be a Catholic today. I say to you what I said to Ohio, if Christianity is not degraded, why are we not all Catholics today? We may as well have remained or joined Catholicism and pretend that we are not degraded. By your logic, then Martin Luther must have also caused little ones to stumble etc etc.

If you don't believe in the degradation of Christianity, then why not? Do you believe Christianity is not degraded?

I have gone into great detail on this question on another forum, but that forum has closed down without explanation.

This question requires a detailed and careful response, not some superficial response.

I will create a new thread "Do you think Christianity is degraded?" Where we can do that.

The brief response is that I disagree with much of what Witness Lee said and did on this topic.

That said, I do agree that many of the verses he referred to do in fact refer to failings of Christians and Christian congregations. I do not disagree with the interpretation that the 7 churches in Revelation can be viewed from the idea of church history. I don't think that this is the only way to view this portion, nor is this my preferred way to look at these verses, but I can agree that there are some reasonable points with this approach.