Part of me thinks God is highly amused at our human attempts to understand and communicate with Him. See there I've just humanised God, in order to try and understand Him.
As long as we aren't trying to scare people into believing in Him. As long as we are honestly trying to be obedient in the context of love, I don't think the doctrines are so important. OSAS? yeah maybe. Baptised infants? why not .....Mary gets too much leverage?.... I don't know. And the list goes on. As we all get headaches worrying if we "know" the truth and "follow" the truth. It's all intellectual truth. I'd be more interested to see visible signs of your relationship with Christ. Do you reflect His presence? How much do you truly love your neighbour? Is your faith real or are you just another phoney? Hey before you take offence, I put myself in that category . I'm a fake. Part of me is very decent but its kinda small. it needs to grow. Maybe like the mustard seed story. And why am I anxious now to give credit to Christ, instead of myself, for that? To impress you maybe. How humble I am.
As long as we aren't trying to scare people into believing in Him. As long as we are honestly trying to be obedient in the context of love, I don't think the doctrines are so important. OSAS? yeah maybe. Baptised infants? why not .....Mary gets too much leverage?.... I don't know. And the list goes on. As we all get headaches worrying if we "know" the truth and "follow" the truth. It's all intellectual truth. I'd be more interested to see visible signs of your relationship with Christ. Do you reflect His presence? How much do you truly love your neighbour? Is your faith real or are you just another phoney? Hey before you take offence, I put myself in that category . I'm a fake. Part of me is very decent but its kinda small. it needs to grow. Maybe like the mustard seed story. And why am I anxious now to give credit to Christ, instead of myself, for that? To impress you maybe. How humble I am.