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Originally Posted by Zezima
I suppose that would help this discussion.
Overcomer doctrine: There is a group of Christians who were successful in their Christian lives by gaining the amount of spirit that God requires of them. This group of Christians is different than others because they have gained more God. Every Christian is saved from eternal hell, however some Christians don’t gain enough christ in their life so they are sent to outer darkness for 1,000 years, a place separated from God and a place where they will gain the Christ they failed to gain. Overcomers however will be sent to a feast with God for 1,000 years. In short, overcomers are genuinely saved Christians that gained more God in their life and are rewarded with 1,000s of feasting.
This is how I would define or describes LR definition of being a overcomer.
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That sounds like what I recall too.
Can you (or anyone participating) think of and include any of the verses the LR would use to justify this?
The one that comes to mind for me are the ones in Matthew 25 about the 10 virgins. The LR would say that the oil in their lamps represented the Spirit we had gained.
Matthew 25:1-12
1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise.
3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.
4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.
5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
9 “ ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’
12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
I have some comments about whether the teaching holds up to these verses, but are there other verses we can add to the mix first so we have a set of things to look at? I'm drawing a blank on others right now.
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