Since this is a Christian Forum why is there so much discrepancy within these topics of core Christian Doctrines ?
I'm seeing this daily on the forum when Gods nature is being discussed, the 2 natures in Christ and His work, the bodily Resurrection, the gospel and what it is and is not and salvation/eternal life. These are what the Apostles/ ECF's gave their life for and what they contended for in the early church against all the heretical teachings in the first few centuries post Ascension.
I believe it is a couple of things.
Different stages of growth. A baby cannot eat meat.
You can't expect new Christians or those who have not done a lot of study to understand all the doctrines and how they fit together.
Now after a period of growth there is no excuse to not know the basics. If you start to disagree with the basics, have no real hunger for the word, and start to live like you did before salvation, you have to start wondering if it "took". Only 1/3 of all Christians are truly saved if we take this parable at face value, and deception will be worse in the last days.
18“Hear then the parable of the sower.
19“When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.
20“The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
21yet he has no
firm root in himself, but is
only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.
22“And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
23“And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these
men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
