He didn’t. If he did, then show me and I will apologise.
You don't know if Watchman Nee never mentioned that song the phrase.
You can say you couldn't find it mentioned in any of the books online.
I am not interested in an apology. I am interested in being realistic.
Most of the books under his name were notes taken by people present who
wrote down what he said.
-Removed-Let's not lose track of where we are.
1.) I didn't ever say "fountain filled with blood" is exactly stated that way in any Bible passage.
2.) Ground for the putting together of a couple of passages to arrive at the poetic phrase found in a classic hymn I will defend.
Those two passages being Zech. 13:1 and John 19:34.
If the "error" you say I am defending is the the exact phrase "fountain filled with blood" is located in the bible, that is not what I am defending.
I am defending the right for thankful Christians to write a hymn using the poetic expression.
The fact of the matter is that water, wine, or some other substance or liquid it probably not what the Spirit of God had in mind when the prophet Zechariah wrote of -
"a fountain opened for sin and impurity". I am pretty sure that the wounds of Christ the Redeemer is what is meant.
And shortly before in Zech 12:10 in the same book of Zechariah God speaks of Himself as having been pierced. This has to point to Christ, God incarnate, being crucified for the redemption of man's sins.
" . . . and they will look upon Me, whom they have pierced; and they will wail over Him with wailing as for an only son and cry bitterly over Him with bitter crying as for a firstborn son." (See Zech. 12:10)
"Me" is God speaking.
In crucifying the Jesus the executioners pierced God - God who in Christ become a pierceable man.
Israel will eventually realize that this was their Messiah and wail over His being persecuted by them as if wailing over a firstborn son.
The greater weight of evidence is upon the an open fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and impurity" means the blood shedding of the Son of God for redemption and salvation.
-Removed-The "error" as I understand it is that Christians should not celebrate the redemption of Christ with a phrase "fountain filled with blood."
If you don't want to sing such a song, you have that right.
I don't agree that it is an "error" for some adorers of Jesus to so celebrate with this poetic expression.
Not now.
Not forever.
The blood that flowed out like a fountain can still be sprinkled.
The fountain is not VERSES the sprinkling.
-Removed-A fountain opened for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and impurity is not random. (Zech. 13:1).
And the wounds inflicted in the Redeemer - the Son of God, is the best interpretation of the meaning of "an opened fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity."
But I have moved on.