But in many» not all, to be sure» cases of «dividing doctrines,» we now have a level of stated agreement among many whose contemporary (and still contested) achievement makes one wonder about the essential character
of doctrinal conflict in the first place.
As soon as I read it, I recognised
obvious doctrinal conflicts, and I reasoned: «If they teach different terms of salvation, they can't be the same Jesus.»
Calvinism and Arminianism however to do have some
serious doctrinal conflicts with some significant potential bad consequences depending on which doctrine proves to be the most correct.
The reason is that beneath
the doctrinal conflicts lies a set of characteristics that all good schools have in common.