BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
Correct
doctrine MUST divide, as the
Bible says we must rightly divide the word of truth (2Tim 2:15)
Have you
ever heard
people say “Doctrine divides!” as though doctrine was a bad thing? Of
course
you have. What they are actually saying is that we should put aside all
our
differences, and retreat to the lowest common denominator of “Let’s all
get
along no matter what. I guarantee those
who say that “Doctrine divides” have some doctrine from another
dispensation.
When Jesus
was
tempted in the desert by Satan, he didn’t say “Be gone devil! Don’t you
know
who I am? I created the heaven and the earth and you as well!”
No. God
says My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as
the
small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Deut
32:2
NOW HOW
GENTLE AND LOVELY IS THAT?
But if you
won’t have his proper doctrine, then … they
that are unlearned
and unstable wrest, as they do
also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Peter
3:16
Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15, this is
when it
becomes hard to understand the Bible.
This is
correct for
people who won’t or can’t see that God has different rules and
governance for
different times (called dispensations) for man over 6,000 years since
creation.
Paul
says Be ye followers of me,
even as I also am of Christ. (1Co 11:1)
We do
follow Christ and the apostle Paul shows us how to
do this.
Christ was
a Jew who
came to fulfill God’s laws that he had given to the Jews at Mt Sinai.
For
example, Jesus didn’t eat pork and he went to the Jewish temple on
Saturdays
and he endorsed animal blood sacrifices. You don’t do that do you? Of
course
not.
My little
children, of whom I travail in birth again
until Christ be formed in you, Gal 4:19
Of course
this makes
sense as you are put into Christ Know ye
not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into
his death? Rom 6:3.
Paul had
been given his own special doctrine from God which superseded
and by-passed all other previous Bible doctrines.
Was Paul
making this up because he had a large ego or something? No, he
was simply saying that a new era in doctrine had arrived. While the
others were
true, they were no longer relevant to the Christian to follow and obey.
It’s
like a diet. You can’t just eat lollies and cakes – you’ll get sick. If
you’re
given the wrong instructions on how to drive a car, you will have an
accident
or kill yourself.
So
similarly, God has his instructions on being a Christian. It’s in the
thirteen
epistles of Paul – from Romans to Philemon.
Harley
Hitchcock
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