(September 8, 2014 at 11:52 am)RobbyPants Wrote: I have a Baptist friend who runs a group on Facebook. Within a few days, two separate posts caused different people to post almost the exact same response:
Both of them said things to the effect of "doctrine can cause division" or "when we die, we'll find out we were all wrong about doctrine". Both encouraged people to not get hung up on issues of doctrine, and instead, to only worry about "the doctrine of Jesus Christ".
Quote:Now, I'm sure that sounds all profound and stuff, but what does that even mean?This is the message of biblical Christianity i have been teaching.
Quote:I understand what they're getting at, but if you try to get down to specifics, no one can give a coherent answer.Maybe your not asking a coherent question.
Quote: Everyone who has an opinion on doctrine believes that theirs is the One True doctrine.What was said in the opening paragraph is that we all have it wrong (to one degree or another.)
Christ put it this way:
"What ever you bind here on Earth will be bound for you in Heaven and what you loose here on earth will be loosed in Heaven."
This has direct implications to doctrine. Fore in the NT we have some set in stone rules, others are a matter of doctrinal conviction. In the first century people like Paul and peter knew of this and even spoke of it the book of acts.
Quote: What is the doctrine of Jesus Christ? The fact that no two Christians can give the same answer should set up a red flag, right there.The word 'Doctrine' means
a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief.
To that one must simply point to what is out line by Christ in the gospel accounts.
Everything else is apart of man's religious efforts, and not doctrine of Christ related.
Quote:The closest thing I could think of would be something like a "love God and love each other" sort of thing, but every time I see an author try to boil it down to something so simple, they're always branded as heretics with "false doctrines".That's because it is not simple, what Christ taught is covered in 4 books.
