The Wisdom of Witness Lee

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It appears that cult-of-personality based on Witness Lee has got sonship convinced that he will be deified into a God-man after he dies.

@sonship said
Ghost,

I'd like to hear it from you then. You have a energetic cheerleader there in FMF.

But in what way did you demonstrate Witness Lee's wisdom on the teaching of nature of God and His triune nature was not wise ?

Which post was it ?

This one:

The Triune God

The statement of faith on the Living Stream Ministries website says “God is eternally one and also eternally the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, the three being distinct but not separate.” Sounds fine, but note what Beisner says in this 2003 article:

Look closely. Notice that it doesn’t say what the three are as “distinct”? What are the Father, the Son, and the Spirit? Cabbages? Angels? Compact discs? Extensive reading in Witness Lee’s writings discovers considerable hesitation to affirm what Christianity has affirmed through the ages: that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, though they are one God, are distinct Persons.

For example, Lee says:

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not three separate persons or three Gods; they are one God, one reality, one person… God is triune; that is, He is three-one. In some theological writings, the preposition in is added between three and one to make three-in-one. However, it is more accurate to say that God is three-one.

Witness Lee, The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man
(Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1970), p. 48

Lee clarified what he meant by triune. He meant three-one, not three-in-one. And, to make sure people did not misunderstand him, he said he was teaching something different than the “traditional” understanding of the Trinity.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Lee clarified what he meant by triune. He meant three-one, not three-in-one. And, to make sure people did not misunderstand him, he said he was teaching something different than the “traditional” understanding of the Trinity.

And Lee did, of course, dismiss and condemn Protestantism and Catholicism ~ and presumably those bits of their theology that Lee has taken it upon himself to embellish, add to, twist, and corrupt, too ~ as "Satan's" organizations.

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sonship recently said something along the lines that non-Local Church Christians ought to quickly go out and buy a certain Witness Lee book when the 'end times' come and read it if they want to be "saved". This is not verbatim and I'm not going to go and find the exact quote.

@fmf said
sonship recently said something along the lines that non-Local Church Christians ought to quickly go out and buy a certain Witness Lee book when the 'end times' come and read it if they want to be "saved". This is not verbatim and I'm not going to go and find the exact quote.

Though sonship will of course ask you to do so.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Though sonship will of course ask you to do so.

I had an exchange with him over it so if he pretends he can't remember I'll just put it down to sonship being sonship.

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This exchange about "degraded" Christians (i.e. Christians who are not members of the Local Churches cult) having to read some Witness Lee book was this year, only a month or so ago.

@sonship said
@divegeester

Gossip, gossip.

What you said about non-Local Church Christians having to quickly buy and read a certain Witness Lee book when the 'end times' come - with their "salvation" being at stake - was you gossiping? I took it at face value. It was just gossip?