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    It is not the case that If salvation genuinely extends beyond personal commitment to one tradition, the doctrinal uniqueness of that tradition becomes explanatorily redundant.

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    • 1.Doctrines can be true and explanatorily relevant even if salvation extends beyond them—truth ≠ necessity for all salvation cases.
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    • 2.Salvation extending broadly doesn't prove doctrinal uniqueness is redundant; it may explain *why* salvation extends through grace rather than doctrine.
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    • 3.Multiple causal pathways to salvation (doctrine-dependent and doctrine-independent) coexist consistently; one's existence doesn't eliminate others' explanatory power.
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    • 1.If salvation outcomes are identical across traditions, doctrinal differences cannot causally explain salvation, making them explanatorily superfluous.
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    • 2.Universal salvation access suggests an underlying common mechanism independent of specific doctrinal content in any single tradition.
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    • 3.Appealing to doctrinal uniqueness to explain salvation becomes ad hoc when empirically identical results occur without that doctrine.
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