i've seen how many siblings here know much about the scriptures but they "fight" with, not showing kindness enough love enough
It is a teaching in many corners of the evangelical Christian church today that there is some sort of conflict between love and doctrine. Now, Paul warns that "knowledge puffs up but love edifies" (
1 Cor. 8:1), but Christian believers must love
according to knowledge, that is, the knowledge of God's truth, spiritual principles and wisdom found in His word. Paul writes of the Jews who had a zeal for God but not according to knowledge (
Ro. 10:2, 3). For all of their zeal, they had got it wrong concerning God and what He wanted. So, too, with those who lay aside knowledge of the doctrines of the Christian faith in order to be more loving. There is no such thing as godly love that is divorced from the doctrines of God. Real godly love is characterized by careful fidelity to the truth of God
communicated to us in the doctrines of the faith. When Christians set aside biblical doctrine and try to "love" each other and the lost, their love quickly becomes sentimental, riddled with falsehood, and incredibly fleshly. Love, Paul writes, "rejoices in the truth" (
1 Cor. 13:6). And the apostle John commands believers,
1 John 3:18
18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Where do we find God's truth? In the doctrines of the Christian faith derived from Scripture. I don't, then, think it is a good idea to set love and doctrine at odds with each other or to set one above the other. Instead, we ought to recognize that they are
necessary parts of each other.