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1 | Dogmatic Essentials | Gal 2:5 | DocTrinsograce | 203459 | ||
"The spirit of our age is very unfriendly towards dogmatic people. Folks whose opinions are clearly formulated and strongly held are not popular. A person of conviction, however, intelligent, sincere and humble he may be, will be fortunate if he escapes the charge of being a bigot. Nowadays the really great mind is thought to be both broad and open -- broad enough to absorb every fresh idea which is presented to it, and open enough to go on doing so ad infinitum. "What are we to say to this? We must reply that historic Christianity is essentially dogmatic, because it purports to be a revealed faith... "The second way in which the spirit of the age is unfriendly towards [my aim]... concerns the modern hatred of controversy... Perhaps the best way to insist that controversy is sometimes a painful necessity is to remember that our Lord Jesus Christ Himself was a controversialist. He was not 'broad-minded' in the popular sense that He was prepared to countenance any views on any subject. On the contrary, Jesus engaged in continuous debate with religious leaders of His day, the scribes and Pharisees, the Herodians and Sadducees. He said that He was the truth, that He had come to bear witness to the truth, and that the truth would set His followers free. As a result of His loyalty to the truth, He was not afraid to dissent publicly from official doctrines (if He knew them to be wrong), to expose error, and to warn His disciples of false teachers. He was also extremely outspoken in his language, calling them 'blind guides', 'wolves in sheep's clothing', 'whitewashed tombs' and even a 'brood of vipers.' "The apostles were also controversialists, as is plain from the New Testament Epistles, and they appealed to their readers to 'contend for for the faith which was once delivered to all the saints.' Like their Lord and Master the apostles found it necessary to warn the churches of false teachers and urge them to stand firm in the truth. "Revealed truth is thus likened to a building, and the church's calling is to be it's foundation. The church is 'the pillar and foundation of the truth'... However hostile the spirit of the age may be to an outspoken confession of the truth, the church has no liberty to reject its God-given task." --Will Metzger |
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2 | Dogmatic Essentials | Gal 2:5 | azurelaw | 203461 | ||
Dear Brother Doc, Thank you for the excellent quote. Some people (even christians) I know are quite anti-dogmatic. Perhaps they might feel it offensive when they are again revealed to the truth which they knew already. "People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." Dr Johnson (quote by C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity) While we are instructed, we might deem ourselves learning something new that we might feel less guilty for we thought we are innocent. When it comes to a reminder, the situation will be different. Rom 1:19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. Shalom Azure |
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3 | Dogmatic Essentials | Gal 2:5 | DocTrinsograce | 203464 | ||
Hi, Sister Azure... Dogmatics has a negative connotation to people in English. They associate it with not thinking, although that is not the meaning of the word. I posted another quote on the subject a long time ago (see post #180437). Thank you for your encouragement. In Him, Doc |
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