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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Quotes like this that tell me I can't take this guy seriously. This is a joke. The idea that salvation is more than redemption is too much for him to get. The idea that you can be "saved once for all" and that you can also go through a process of salvation is also too much for him to get.
No doubt Witness Lee emphasized the salvation of the soul and deemphasized redemption. This was done because the teaching in Christianity is often so focused on redemption they cannot see anything more than that. Case in point -- Duddy.
But it is total BS to say that we were taught we were not redeemed, or that "salvation is not so much redemption but being replaced"
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You are both right and wrong. Lee did teach salvation and redemption. But they were lowered in importance and what was elevated was not really what the scripture says. Lee wanted good Christians to follow an alternate path to his version of "glory." So salvation was required. We had to be redeemed. But the rest was something else.
There is no joke here. Duddy may not have gotten every aspect spot on because he and his fellow researchers were not long-time members. But they got a pretty good idea. And they spelled it out pretty accurately.