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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
Chapter Three: Unique Theology - Lee on Salvation
I continue here reading from page 57 of The God-Men. May the Lord grant us wisdom to discern His Truth.
"(In Witness Lee's theology of Salvation) It could be said that people are not so much redeemed as they are replaced. The crux of Local Church teaching seems to be that God is working Himself into people and at times even replacing them with Himself...
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"The work of salvation which God accomplished in His divine Trinity is in God the Son. As the embodiment of the Triune God, the Son was sent by the Father (1 John 4:14) into the world as a man to save sinners (1 Tim. 1:15). He passed through incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension, thus accomplishing an eternal redemption. On the one hand, He terminated the negative things, such as sin, the flesh, the old man, Satan and the world belonging to him, the old creation, and all separating ordinances of the law; on the other hand, He released the divine life. Thus, He is able to redeem us who have believed into Him. Furthermore, in resurrection He brought us into a life relationship, an organic union, with God, that we might participate in all that God is and has. Hence, we are saved in God the Son." (Witness Lee, Truth Lesson, Level 1, Vol. 4, Chapter 10.)
Lee's theology of Salvation is addressed in this quote. Duddy says "it could be said that people are not so much redeemed as replaced." This is false. It cannot be said. It cannot be inferred. It is false.
The fact that Witness Lee taught that people are "replaced" does not change the fact that his teaching on redemption is very fundamental and scriptural.