Originally posted by RJHinds
For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
(1 John 5:7 NKJV)
THE ONE HERE OBVIOUSLY MEANS A UNITY OF THE THREE, NOT THE VERY SAME ONE AS WITNESS LEE TEACHES.
Thankyou for the supplied passages. I always enjoy to read them again and again.
However you are still sounding a false alarm concerning what Witness Lee has ministered.
I would draw your attention to
1 John 5:7. Notice that John, writing under inspiration simply says that there are three.
He does not say three WHAT.
He does not say three Persons.
He does not say three in UNITY.
He simply says there are three.
I think he does say that the three are one.
We have realize the shortage of human language and leave it blank as it should be -
"there are THREE ______________".
It is completely foolhearty for you to try to convince me that Witness Lee did not speak often about the distinction between the THREE _______. He said there was no separation.
You are simply sounding frantically a false alarm of heretical Christian teaching where none exists in the messages of Brother Witness Lee.
God is very mysterious indeed. But the Lord is the Spirit and the Son shall be called Eternal Father. Any fighting AGAINST these profound and paradoxical utterances SHOULD be your concern when it comes to heretical belief.
If the Son shall be called Eternal Father and you argue that the Son SHALL NOT be called Eternal Father, then you heretically and flat out deny the utterance of the oracles of God.
Now if I were you (seriously), I would simply say "I don't understand this but that is what it SAYS."
We should say Amen to whatever God has told us. No?
Okay so then you say "But it is matter of interpretation. Witness Lee interprets Isaiah 9:6 wrong."
Those who labor to re-interpret the passage have to resort to one of a number of questionable schemes.
The Son is not the Son of God.
The Eternal Father is some other Father from the Father-Son-Holy Spirit of the Bible.
Better leave it as it is. There is only ONE Divine Father who is eternal. And that Father is Jehovah God of the entire Bible and runs OVER into the New Testament as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Why not say we cannot fully explain it, but we trust God and say "Amen" to what our trustworthy Father has said?