Sentences with phrase «wrote doctrinal statements»

The Swedenborgian Church teaches (1) marriage in heaven and (2) the three heavens and (3) the spiritual world is arranged in earths and (4) St. Paul wrote doctrinal statements not scripture.

But what so often happens is that we write a doctrinal statement, and then we think it is the truth, rather than recognizing that it is our interpretation of the truth of Scripture.

First, a written doctrinal statement is only as good as the character of the people who are supposed to be using it.

For example, I was recently un-invited to speak somewhere we both know and love because «the doctrinal distance is too great» — and this when nothing I said, or was planning to say, violated the written doctrinal statement in question.

Not exact matches

You know, John Calvin wrote his «doctrinal statement» («The Institutes») over many, many year.

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.

It means that how we treat one another and what we do for our neighbors matters more than what we write down on our doctrinal statement.

does that mean they have a doctrinal statement written somewhere??)

And yet, because they get written into a formal «doctrinal statement» the words of the statement become set in stone, and soon, we become slaves to the statements.

Well, God's written word is the truth as well and, insofar as a given doctrinal statement reflects the truth of God's word, the doctrinal statement is also the truth.

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

Throughout history, people disagree on what Scripture actually teaches, and so doctrinal statements were written to serve as a guide for the proper interpretation and understanding of Scripture.

I have written about some of this in an earlier post: The History of Doctrinal Statements.

On an earlier comment, Sam talked about «insider theology» where a group has a hidden doctrinal statement that is not written on paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for it.

And if this is where doctrinal statements had stopped, I would not be writing this chapter.