God’s Complete Salvation: refs. include Watchman Nee and Witness Lee

An overview of God’s complete salvation

Man’s problem is twofold

The objective problem before God

Man sinned by disobeying God’s commandment and thus came under God’s condemnation (Rom. 5:18; John 3:18). This is man’s objective problem before God, meaning that this problem, while related to man, remains outside of man. We can describe this problem as follows:

Because of man’s disobedience, or transgression, we have all come under God’s condemnation (Rom. 5:18a).
Because we were condemned by God in Adam, we are all under the wrath of God (John 3:36b).
Because of Adam’s sin, man will be judged by God and cast into the lake of fire to suffer God’s judgment for eternity (Heb. 9:27). God prepared the lake of fire not for man but for Satan and his fallen angels (Matt. 25:41), but because man was deceived by Satan and followed him to rebel against God, man must now also share Satan’s judgment in the lake of fire (Rev. 20:15).

Objectively—outwardly and before God—this is the wretched condition into which man has fallen due to Adam’s transgression. Therefore, rather than enjoying God’s life and expressing Him, man has been condemned to die and to suffer Satan’s eternal judgment with him.

Objective Problem | Subjective Problem