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Stick to Jesus's core teaching!!

J3thekingofking

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the bible warns us many false teachers will arise to deceive the believers (2 Peter 2).

We are taught to discern (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

There are many disagreements among Christians on unimportant issues, why can't people just stick to Jesus's core teaching? Yes, many things are unclear to us, but if we all start to speculate, there's how the church got split.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a liberal Christian who accepts things like LGBT, but sticking to the main message of Jesus and the apostles doesn't seem hard.
 

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It doesn't seem hard to you because you probably have some fairly fixed ideas about what Jesus' "core teachings" are and aren't. They're probably not the same as everyone else's ideas of the same, however, so it's not actually as easy in practice as it seems in theory. If it were, I'd have you all praying from the Agpeya and fasting at least the Wednesday/Friday fast throughout the year. Alas, that's not at all realistic or healthy.
 
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According to Jesus' words in the gospel, the sermon on the mount is a foundational teaching. If you do not listen to what He says in it, it brings ruin.

The divisions in the church are the result of filling the cracks in the foundation repeatedly with sand.
 
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There are many disagreements among Christians on unimportant issues...
Can you give examples on unimportant issues? It would help understand the situation better.
 
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I do consider that an important issue. The Bible has examples of immersion.

Years ago the church had introduced to me that certain issues are unimportant. Jesus corrected me in a quick amount of time. (The unimportant issue that the church said was that it was okay if a Christian thought that someone could lose salvation). I think it's going to be hard to find unimportant issues.
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There are many disagreements among Christians on unimportant issues, why can't people just stick to Jesus's core teaching?
Are you saying that Paul's teaching, and that of the Apostles, is unimportant?

Yes, many things are unclear to us, but if we all start to speculate, there's how the church got split.
It's not speculation that causes differences, but interpretation.
People are capable of taking even Jesus' teachings out of context, and promoting doctrines that just aren't there. Look at how many threads there are/have been on obeying the Jewish law, for example.

Besides which, there were splits and divisions in the church in Corinth because they followed different people, not because they were speculating on the Gospel.
 
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In the early centuries of Christianity, the Church defined core teachings in the Nicene Creed.
What do YOU think the core teachings of Jesus are?
 
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I don't see what the Bible texts you reference, have to do with defining what the core teachings of Christianity are.

Anyone, who believes anything, can reference these Bible texts.

Some groups appeal to sticking to the "gospel".
They may assume that this label, points to a universally agreed on body of doctrine.
But it does not.

Sticking to the early creeds of the united Church, at least has historical support.
But many Protestant Fundamentalists reject this historical definition of core Christian doctrine.

Some groups appeal to the New Testament teaching. But most of them cannot agree on
who authoritatively interprets the Scriptures.

Some groups appeal to the "guidance of the Holy Spirit". But this does not include
a builtin "decision algorithm" to determine who is being guided by the Holy Spirit.

The united Church, for the first 1,000 years, appealed to the authority of the 11 Apostles
(and Paul) to determine what the canon of Scripture was, and what authoritative
teaching was. This is based on the great commission, to the 11 Apostles.
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Asserting that Christians should stick to "core teachings" is useless rhetoric, without
a historic definition of how this core teaching is to be authoritatively determined.

I point this out, because many modern Christian groups have NEVER thought
seriously about how the "gospel" or core teaching, is to be authoritatively defined.
But, the ancient unified Church, has.
 
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