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Subject: Criteria for Permanence of Doctrine? |
Bible Note: Dear Steve, Thank you very much for that explanation there. So if I understand you correctly a doctrine is permanent unless God changed it as according to Hebrews as in the old priesthood and sacrifices were done away with because better one were found, I hear you. So then according to your line of reasoning here if God sets something up it is permanent, got it... Here is what I found out through research while I was waiting... 1.Constancy across cultures – identification of similarities in principles of worship and modes of living throughout the various cultures found in the Bible and today can illuminate things that are going to be unchanging in the message. 2.Universal settings – doctrines which contain things to be done in perpetuity come from practices proscribed by the teachings of Jesus and the apostles as things to be done by all Christians transcending historical settings. 3.A recognized permanent factor as a basis – those things which are described in scripture as proscriptions for Christian practice by virtue of having a basis in a permanent Biblical precedence. 4.Indissoluble link with an essential experience –where an essential experience of the Christian believer has its basis in the actions and experience of Jesus Christ there is a link that cannot be dissolved; where such an experience was true for Christ, it must be true for us, if it were not true for Christ it could not separately be true for us - as in the resurrection of Jesus, since it was true for Him it will be true for us. 5.Final position within progressive revelation – the progression of how doctrine was used occurred over time in the Bible until the final position of the doctrine in the lives of believers was achieved and transcends Biblical times by virtue of the absolute truths they contain - example the doctrine of salvation was around since the OT but it has taken different modes until it arrived at Jesus on the cross and now that truth transcends Biblical times. So my point I guess would be that a doctrine is permanent if it can meet all these criteria that I found. God Bless, Tam |