Question. Hendricks asserts that Divine Principle teaches the third responsibility — placed on “the people of faith on earth and in heaven” — is to defeat Satan. By what concrete mechanism does DP claim believers accomplish this defeat? Spiritual warfare? Evangelism? Indemnity conditions? Lineage restoration via the Blessing? All of the above?
Why it matters. The whole populist case (divine-principles-support-for-the-populist-approach) rests on this assignment of responsibility to ordinary believers. If “defeat Satan” turns out to mean something narrow (e.g., only formal evangelism in specified contexts), the populist framing is correspondingly narrow. If it means something broader (lived holiness in family, witness in vocation, etc.), the framing supports a much wider call.
Current best guesses. Defer until Exposition of the Divine Principle is ingested. Hendricks’s citation is EDP p. 186 — that page and surrounding context should clarify what DP itself says about mechanism, not just agent.
Source. Raised in br-00-introduction REVIEW, from divine-principles-support-for-the-populist-approach and believers-responsibility-as-third-providential-phase.