It
should!
It must! That’s what it is designed for! Different dispensations have
different
doctrines. Everything
in the Bible is true, but if you jam it into the wrong place, it’s no
longer sound
doctrine and applicable is it?
Correct
doctrine MUST divide, as the
Bible says we must rightly divide the word of truth (2Tim 2:15)
EXPLANATION:
Have
you
ever heard
people say “Doctrine divides!” as though doctrine was a bad thing? Of
course
you have. What they are actually saying is that we should put aside all
our
differences, and retreat to the lowest common denominator of “Let’s all
get
along no matter what. I guarantee those
who say that “Doctrine divides” have some doctrine from another
dispensation.
Their
motto is “Let’s
have unity in spite of our diversity”. It sounds clever, but in reality
it’s
absolute rubbish and spits in the face of God. They profess to love God
and
Jesus but they hate what God has written down in his final written
authority to
men - the King James Bible. They detest God’s words. They hate to be
bound by
God what God has written. Why? They are rebellious.
HOW
IMPORTANT ARE GOD’S WORDS?
When
Jesus
was
tempted in the desert by Satan, he didn’t say “Be gone devil! Don’t you
know
who I am? I created the heaven and the earth and you as well!”
No
he
didn’t. Three
times he said “It is written” Matt
4:6,7,10. Jesus was placing more
importance on what was written down in the Old Testament than on
himself as a
person.
David
says
for thou hast magnified thy word above
all thy name. Psalm 138:2. And
doesn’t this make absolute sense. As
Jesus is called the Word (Rev 19:13 notice
the capital ‘W’), he is most concerned
about
his word, his final written authority of the King James Bible and his
words
that are written therein.
BUT
ISN’T
DOCTRINE HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
No.
God
says My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as
the
small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Deut
32:2
NOW HOW
GENTLE AND LOVELY IS THAT?
But
if you
won’t have his proper doctrine, then … they
that are unlearned
and unstable wrest, as they do
also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Peter
3:16
WHEN
PEOPLE WON’T…
Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15, this is
when it
becomes hard to understand the Bible.
All
other
Bibles do
not have the word ‘study’ in them, as they have ‘do your best’, ‘be
diligent’
or ‘have a go’ and so on. This word is
only found in the King James Bible.
BUT
THE
BIBLE SEEMS VERY CONTRADICTORY IN PLACES
This
is
correct for
people who won’t or can’t see that God has different rules and
governance for
different times (called dispensations) for man over 6,000 years since
creation.
The
obvious one is
circumcision. “Do I have to be circumcised today to be saved?” No, not
in this
era/age/dispensation, but under the Old Testament, you had to become a
Jew and
get circumcised to be saved.
WELL, WHAT
DOCTRINE SHOULD WE FOLLOW TODAY THEN?
Paul
says Be ye followers of me,
even as I also am of Christ. (1Co 11:1)
BUT
SHOULDN’T WE FOLLOW CHRIST AND WHAT HE SAYS?
We do
follow Christ and the apostle Paul shows us how to
do this.
Christ
was
a Jew who
came to fulfill God’s laws that he had given to the Jews at Mt Sinai.
For
example, Jesus didn’t eat pork and he went to the Jewish temple on
Saturdays
and he endorsed animal blood sacrifices. You don’t do that do you? Of
course
not.
So
here is
the point - all things in the Bible are true, but not all
things apply to us as Christians today. Paul says
to follow him (Paul) as he follows
Christ. When we do this, we become more like Christ.
My little
children, of whom I travail in birth again
until Christ be formed in you, Gal 4:19
Of course
this makes
sense as you are put into Christ Know ye
not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into
his death? Rom 6:3.
PAUL’S
DOCTRINE
Paul
had
been given his own special doctrine from God which superseded
and by-passed all other previous Bible doctrines.
It’s
called my (Paul’s) doctrine; it’s called sound doctrine Titus 1:9,
2Tim 3:10; it’s called good doctrine 1Tim 4:6; Titus 2:1; we are to
teach no
other doctrine (than Paul’s) 1Tim 1:3 or what is contrary to sound
doctrine
(Paul’s) 1Tim 1:10; it’s called God’s doctrine 1Tim 6:1; it’s called
the
doctrine of godliness 1Tim 6:3
WAS PAUL
LYING?
Was
Paul
making this up because he had a large ego or something? No, he
was simply saying that a new era in doctrine had arrived. While the
others were
true, they were no longer relevant to the Christian to follow and obey.
All the
different doctrines in the Bible (and they are all true) are NOT
to be put on equal footing with each other and most importantly of all,
with
Paul. Paul is head and shoulders above the rest for doctrine in this
‘church
age’.
WHY
IS DOCTRINE IMPORTANT?
It’s
like a diet. You can’t just eat lollies and cakes – you’ll get sick. If
you’re
given the wrong instructions on how to drive a car, you will have an
accident
or kill yourself.
So
similarly, God has his instructions on being a Christian. It’s in the
thirteen
epistles of Paul – from Romans to Philemon.
Whom shall
he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are
weaned from the milk, and drawn
from the breasts. Isaiah
28:9
Paul says don’t be a
baby all your life – grow up. I
have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not
able to bear it, neither yet now are ye
able. 1 Cor 3:2
Harley
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