(September 8, 2014 at 2:29 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: You're missing the point. I ask two people what "Christ's doctrine" is, and I get two answers. So, when a person says "Don't worry about all these man-made doctrines. Worry about Christ's doctrine.", it's useless. He just told one person to love everyone no matter what and the other person to not let gay people get married.I totally get what you were trying to say. That is why I backed out of the direction you were going and re-established some common ground that all Christians would agree on. First the defination of doctrine, and second where to find the doctrine of Christ.
Until everyone can agree what X is, you can't tell a bunch of different people making different assumptions to "just do X" and expect any consistent behavior. That's why this advice is a platitude. It sounds all wise and profound on the surface, but you cannot draw a single, coherent meaning from that statement in and of itself.
Therefore If said doctrine can be found in the gospel then it is indeed a doctrine of Christ.
Now because we are all different with different concerns we will focus on different parts of Christ's doctrine.
This goes back to what Paul said in corthinians, in that we are all different members of the same body, as such we have a different appearance and different function, even so we are no less apart of the body of Christ.
In short you are looking for a jumpsuit theology. One all encompassing uniform that covers everything. When Christianity is more like individually made articles of clothing. Tailored to form fit indivisual body parts. Just because you examine a 'glove' from one Christian and a hat or a sock from another does not make those articals any less tailored for the body of Christ.
