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1 | Christian Life: Founded on Doctrine | Matt 26:56 | DocTrinsograce | 165448 | ||
"The Bible is doctrinal through and through. It gives not the slightest bit of comfort to the skeptical notion, so much in vogue today, that doctrine is merely the necessarily changing form in which Christian experience expresses itself. The Bible, unlike this skepticism, grounds life squarely on truth. Christianity, according to the Bible, is a life founded upon a doctrine. "That doctrine upon which the Bible grounds life is not one isolated doctrine, and it is not a mere series of doctrines, but it is a system of doctrine. If the Bible contained a number of divergent systems, it could not possibly be the Word of God, because it could not possibly be true throughout. The ordination pledge [to which all ministers and elders in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church give their word] is quite right in speaking of the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. "I think great stress ought to be laid upon that fact. A great deal of harm is done when people take one part of the teaching of the Bible out of its connection with the rest, or when they leave gaps in their presentation of what the Bible teaches. It is very important to see that the Bible does far more than present isolated truths. It is not a system which man has devised, but a system which God has revealed -- revealed graciously in His holy Word." --J. Gresham Machen (1936) |
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2 | Christian Life: Founded on Doctrine | Matt 26:56 | Hank | 165451 | ||
Good observations, Doc, which serve as the inspiration for two little vignettes from me on doctrine, one taken from an incident at another communion and the other from my own. During a trip to Texas last summer my wife and I attended a church of which a widely known preacher is pastor. In skimming through one of their church bulletins I came across a notice to the effect that they stressed praise, not doctrine. And in my own communion some months ago a couple of "progressive" church ladies wanted to know from the pastor why we couldn't just worship God and leave off much of this "doctrine business." ........ These dreadful attempts to dumb down the gospel of Christ rather reminds me of something my daughter said when she was a little girl. She came to me one day and said, "Daddy, will you please make Mommy cook me a banana pudding and leave out the bananas?" --Hank | ||||||
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