Andy Anderson on the "Overcomers"

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Originally Posted by Cassidy

I did not ignore it. I agree that Witness Lee taught the need for the growth in life. I think the testimony of scripture is clear on this. However, as to overcoming I am not so sure that it is only growth in life. I gave the example of Blandina. Surely she was an overcomer though she was just a youth with little opportunity. She loved the Lord Jesus to such an extent that she gave her life for it.

Lee equated growth with rapture and rapture with overcoming and overcoming with reward. He said you wouldn't be raptured until you were mature. His justification of this is that the rapture was a "harvest."

I'm saying that although a faithful person will eventually grow, nowhere does the Bible say that full growth, or any growth is needed for being considered faithful. As I said, someone could become a Christian, be faithful for six months and get hit by a bus. Growth is nowhere on the radar screen as far a judgment goes for such a person, and it's really kind of dumb to think it would be.

This is the loose end Lee just ignored.