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Direct Answer Based on David Bercot’s teaching, the biggest “indoctrinating” assumptions are (1) that the kingdom must have a long “gap” or near-death after the apostles, and (2) that salvation is a one-time event that cannot be lost—so warnings in the parables get re-labeled as “not truly saved” or “missing imputed righteousness.”

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• He says many Christians “try to make Jesus' parables fit the theology of their church” and have been “indoctrinated… through Sunday school lessons and sermons.”
• He directly contrasts a “blank slate” reading with “standard evangelical or reformed interpretations” that a first-time reader would “never come up with.”
• Jehovah’s Witness assumption: after the apostles, Christianity “withered and died away” until the 1800s—so they made mustard seed/leaven about a “counterfeit Kingdom.”
• Reformation assumption: people rejected in the end “were never truly saved,” or were “trusting in their own righteousness,” categories Bercot says “Jesus never talked about.”
• On John 15, he insists “two parts of salvation”: getting on the vine by repentance/faith, then “abide… keep his commandments… bear fruit,” or be “cut off.”
• On the wedding garment, he says Reformers insert “imputed righteousness,” but early Christians saw “godly deeds, holiness.”