Andy Anderson on the "Overcomers"

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Originally Posted by Cassidy

The Lord's answer is universally considered a positive affirmation of the thief's request,

Only if you equate the kingdom to Paradise. I see no scriptural basis for such a conclusion, nor for the teaching that the Lord Jesus coming into His kingdom was His returning from the dead.

So we have the kingdom, we have Paradise, we have the Wedding Feast, and so forth. None of it presented clearly by Mssrs. Nee & Lee. Nor by myself, I might add; but then I don't pretend to be able to. I am just making the point that what ran across my bow during my sojourn in the LC system was not very impressive. The idea of what Cassidy called "promise and warning" was certainly more balanced than what I found in the Congregational and Lutheran Churches, but it remained embarrassingly crude and ill-formed. You have the thief on the cross, for example, being presented out of any context, as if it were some proof text of a critical point. Which I personally doubt it is: it is rather all these different stories, which tell us what? Or more importantly, they told the disciples what?

It seemed to me that Lee tried to sashay in after the fact, with his brilliant mind and a few teachers like Nee & so forth, and give us the definitive word. I find that completely unsatisfying. Again, I cannot do better, but then I don't pretend to.