Claim. In DP, salvation is not addition of a new grace but restoration of fallen humanity to its original pre-fall state. The salvific aim is exactly to “save it completely” — first by expelling Satan’s power, then by carrying humanity back through to the original direct dominion of God. Salvation is therefore identical to the providence of restoration.
Elaboration. Per 2.1. God’s Work of Salvation is the Providence of Restoration: “To save a sick person is to restore him to the condition of health he had before the illness.” Salvation does not add a new layer on top of fallen creation; it returns humanity to “his original, sinless state.” Hence “God’s work of salvation is the providence of restoration.”
DP grounds this in two constraints on God Himself. First, having promised the three great blessings, God is committed to fulfill them — 11 is cited: “I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.” Second, having created humans with eternal nature, God “could not, by the laws of the Principle, simply annihilate them just because they fell” — annihilation would violate His own principle-of-creation. The only remaining course is restoration.
This sets the entire eschatological vector of DP: history’s destination is not novel transcendence but the recovery of what was originally intended.
See also. dp-three-reasons-god-did-not-intervene-in-the-fall, dp-human-portion-of-responsibility-inviolable-even-by-god