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Basic Deviations from Biblical Christianity

This is just a basic listing of some of their doctrinal deviations, which I elaborate on later. There are a number of ways in which the Recovery Movement deviates from Biblical Christianity as much of Modern Evangelicalism has.

Easy-Believism
Feel-Good Popular Christianity

There are some deviations which are more unique to the Recovery Movement, or find their origin in more deviant forms of Christianity.

Overcomer vs. Non-Overcomer division.
While there is a Biblical basis for categorizing the Christian community as for example the parable of the sower indicates, the manner in which the Recovery Movement does so I don't believe to be consistent with Biblical Theology. In Biblical theology, the categories are

1. Nominal Christians versus true Christians
2. Mature Christians versus Immature Christians

But the Recovery makes very little recognition of the first category, interpreting most passages which deal with nominalism, as if they were dealing simply with the maturity of those born of God. Thus they believe that there are people who have been born of God who might continue to live a lifestyle of sin, or whose lives may be otherwise characterized as non-Overcomers, contrary to the teachings of such passages as 1John 3:9,10 and 1John 5:3,4. But as I later elaborate on, I would say that the Bible categorizes such people as merely nominal Christians.

They also do not presume that everyone in their movement necessarily is an overcomer.

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