Subject: I am confussed on what to believe. |
Bible Note: You write: "I am still not sure why we spend so much time debating such issues, when there are still so many people that need to be reached for Christ." Good question. Many other people also wonder about the same thing. The issues that are debated are issues of doctrine. Doctrine means "teaching". Why is sound doctrine (wholesome teaching) so important? Consider the following Scriptures from the New International Version. Tit 2:1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. 1Ti 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. Tit 1:9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. 2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 1Ti 1:10 for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers - and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine |