Calvinists have their doctrines I don't agree with. Armenians have doctrine I don't agree with.
Charismatics have doctrines I don't agree with. Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc., etc., have doctrines I don't agree with. There are things that some Baptists will say, some evangelical Christians will say, some fundamentalist will say that I do not agree with. There are a lot of subject out there, and that people blog about that have potential for people to disagree with. It is usually not an extremely pleasant experience to be in disagreement with someone, though there is some satisfaction in disagreeing with someone that you know absolutely for certain that they are wrong. Take for instance a Creationist and an evolutionist. But is one just being egotistically arrogant when they feel that they are basically in the right, even though not absolutely perfectly correct in all things? Paul didn't seem to think so as I read Colossians 2:6-8. He uses the phrase "stablished in the faith as ye have been taught". He then tells us to "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world". I believe many of the doctrines I refer to above are found within these words. But where does the disagreement for me come from? It comes from how the Word of God is interpreted. Now all of these religious groups use the Bible (though versions of the Bible may differ), but they come up with different interpretations by which they form their doctrines. Whether intentionally or not, Scripture can be twisted, manipulated, corrupted in such a way as to make it "seem" to teach what one wants it to teach. Unbelievers have criticized Bible teachers for years saying "You can make the Bible say whatever you want it to say." This was happening in Paul's day (and even Satan twisted God's Word way back in the Garden of Eden, Genesis 3:1-5), when Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 2:17 "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:" and in 2 Corinthians 4:2 of those that were "handling the word of God deceitfully;". Peter spoke of "they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (twist things Paul had written to change God's meaning), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."
Satan can not destroy the Word of God, for God preserves it and will not allow it to be destroyed, Psalms 12:6,7. So it continues to remain, but then Satan moves men to produce corrupted copies of it, and teach corrupted doctrines concerning it, tagging the lie on to these things that "thus saith the Lord," when it fact God would say, as he does several times in Jeremiah, "I did not say what these false prophets have said I said." See Jeremiah 14:14.
So since Satan lied to Eve, and false prophets and false Christs have and will arise (Mark 13:22), leaving this world as a minefield of false doctrines to try to avoid, what is a person to do? We must know the Word of God well, so as to be able to distinguish what is not the true teaching of the Word of God, and avoid it. We need to study all of it, not just pet doctrines, or verses suspended by themselves out of context. There is an immediate context of a verse, a passage, a book, and then the context of the entire Bible. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Deut 8:3; Mt 4:4. "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." 1Th 5:21.
Charismatics have doctrines I don't agree with. Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc., etc., have doctrines I don't agree with. There are things that some Baptists will say, some evangelical Christians will say, some fundamentalist will say that I do not agree with. There are a lot of subject out there, and that people blog about that have potential for people to disagree with. It is usually not an extremely pleasant experience to be in disagreement with someone, though there is some satisfaction in disagreeing with someone that you know absolutely for certain that they are wrong. Take for instance a Creationist and an evolutionist. But is one just being egotistically arrogant when they feel that they are basically in the right, even though not absolutely perfectly correct in all things? Paul didn't seem to think so as I read Colossians 2:6-8. He uses the phrase "stablished in the faith as ye have been taught". He then tells us to "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world". I believe many of the doctrines I refer to above are found within these words. But where does the disagreement for me come from? It comes from how the Word of God is interpreted. Now all of these religious groups use the Bible (though versions of the Bible may differ), but they come up with different interpretations by which they form their doctrines. Whether intentionally or not, Scripture can be twisted, manipulated, corrupted in such a way as to make it "seem" to teach what one wants it to teach. Unbelievers have criticized Bible teachers for years saying "You can make the Bible say whatever you want it to say." This was happening in Paul's day (and even Satan twisted God's Word way back in the Garden of Eden, Genesis 3:1-5), when Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 2:17 "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:" and in 2 Corinthians 4:2 of those that were "handling the word of God deceitfully;". Peter spoke of "they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (twist things Paul had written to change God's meaning), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."
Satan can not destroy the Word of God, for God preserves it and will not allow it to be destroyed, Psalms 12:6,7. So it continues to remain, but then Satan moves men to produce corrupted copies of it, and teach corrupted doctrines concerning it, tagging the lie on to these things that "thus saith the Lord," when it fact God would say, as he does several times in Jeremiah, "I did not say what these false prophets have said I said." See Jeremiah 14:14.
So since Satan lied to Eve, and false prophets and false Christs have and will arise (Mark 13:22), leaving this world as a minefield of false doctrines to try to avoid, what is a person to do? We must know the Word of God well, so as to be able to distinguish what is not the true teaching of the Word of God, and avoid it. We need to study all of it, not just pet doctrines, or verses suspended by themselves out of context. There is an immediate context of a verse, a passage, a book, and then the context of the entire Bible. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Deut 8:3; Mt 4:4. "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." 1Th 5:21.
