15很少基督徒看见,分裂是与情欲、野心以及拜偶像联在一起的。大多数的基督徒顶多说,分裂是不对的,是不合乎圣经的,他们不予同意。然而在主的眼中,分裂关联着情欲、野心和拜偶像。请记得,丘坛的高度是超过普通平地的。这指明丘坛涉及高举某些事物。原则上,今天基督教中的每一个丘坛,每一个分裂,都涉及高抬或高举一些基督以外的事物。那些被高举的东西可能不是罪恶,反而还可能是非常好的,甚至圣经研究或圣经教学等也可能包括在内。当然,教圣经是好事,但圣经研究也可能与分裂有关。照这种情形,甚至研读圣经的聚会都变成丘坛,可能导致高举某些东西来代替基督(李文集一九七九年第二册,四一二至四一四页)。
15Not many Christians realize that division is connected to lust, ambition, and idolatry. Most Christians would not go beyond saying that divisions are wrong and unscriptural and that they cannot agree with them. However, in the eyes of the Lord, division involves such things as lust, ambition, and idolatry. Remember, a high place is an elevation, something lifted above the common level. This indicates that a high place involves the exaltation of something. In principle, every high place, every division, in Christianity today involves the uplifting, the exaltation, of something other than Christ. The things that are exalted may not be evil. On the contrary, they may be very good and may include even Bible study or Bible teaching. Surely it is a good thing to teach the Bible. But Bible study may be related to division. In such a case, even a meeting for the study of the Scriptures becomes a high place; it may lead to the exaltation of something in place of Christ. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, “The Genuine Ground of Oneness,” pp. 314-315)