Obviously I am not free to pick and choose
between biblical doctrines as he is.
Not exact matches
There is a difference
between biblical principles and church
doctrines.
We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought
between the
biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical
doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.
My friend's second objection concerned the conflict
between the Son's apparent subordination to the Father in the
biblical narrative versus the Trinitarian
doctrine of equality among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.