You can't blame it on the different doctrines, blame it on people.
People can either choose to focus on the criteria of a doctrine as the defined truth;
Or that the truth is we are to unite, under Jesus Christ, no matter which creed, because at the end of the day, Jesus is at the centre, and loving our neighbour is centre to that.
The command is love.
God is Love.
People more often than not, choose their own ego/intelligence, than they choose to love with the faith that the highest intelligence comes from God, and not them. 'My' doctrine is right, 'yours' is wrong, 'my' religion is right, 'yours' is wrong, 'my' church is right, 'yours' is wrong. While intelligent deduction might conclude some truth in these logics, at the same time they are devoid of love.
From observation, people become more devoid of love with age, and it gets replaced by their own version of 'what love is'. Love is rejecting someone based on x. Love is treating someone mean. Love is giving people the harsh truth. Love is being over-protective. Love is sheltering your kids at home so they can't be in 'the dangerous world' (that you have experienced). But only by being like a child again, that you once were, before you grew an adult mind that fears bad experience and warps it's own makeup, ideology, and perception, can you really change that. This is something Jesus said, in a way that adults don't understand. And because they don't understand it they never try to.
Love is the unifier of the universe, the particle of existence that brings things together. You are either bringing things together or you are breaking things apart, or you believe that you are breaking things apart and saying you are bringing things together by doing so!?
denominational differences in belief creates a branching off of the church, it was never meant to divide into factions over details and small differences, every christian believes in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, that should be enough to bring folks together despite our pride and wanting to holfd to things taught that are incorrect and very provable in scripture. we should be able to remain together in spite of those differences, because our common faith is in the same savior.
remember Jesus said of a Kingdom.
mark 3:24 "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."
satan uses those kinds of things against people, so through false doctrine, He has divided folks who should be holding tightly together looking for commonalities in Christ, rather than labeling a denomination, or looking for any small difference in doctrine. i really believe God is Good and His will is that we wouls all repent and be saved so im not thinking Hes looking for a technicality to convict us by whi9ch particular church body we attend, or How exactly we pray or worship ect.... chaos and arguments are a device of the enemy working to divide the church because it weakens us and creates things like bitterness, arguing, slander and other things....
People can either choose to focus on the criteria of a doctrine as the defined truth;
Or that the truth is we are to unite, under Jesus Christ, no matter which creed, because at the end of the day, Jesus is at the centre, and loving our neighbour is centre to that.
The command is love.
God is Love.
People more often than not, choose their own ego/intelligence, than they choose to love with the faith that the highest intelligence comes from God, and not them. 'My' doctrine is right, 'yours' is wrong, 'my' religion is right, 'yours' is wrong, 'my' church is right, 'yours' is wrong. While intelligent deduction might conclude some truth in these logics, at the same time they are devoid of love.
From observation, people become more devoid of love with age, and it gets replaced by their own version of 'what love is'. Love is rejecting someone based on x. Love is treating someone mean. Love is giving people the harsh truth. Love is being over-protective. Love is sheltering your kids at home so they can't be in 'the dangerous world' (that you have experienced). But only by being like a child again, that you once were, before you grew an adult mind that fears bad experience and warps it's own makeup, ideology, and perception, can you really change that. This is something Jesus said, in a way that adults don't understand. And because they don't understand it they never try to.
Love is the unifier of the universe, the particle of existence that brings things together. You are either bringing things together or you are breaking things apart, or you believe that you are breaking things apart and saying you are bringing things together by doing so!?
denominational differences in belief creates a branching off of the church, it was never meant to divide into factions over details and small differences, every christian believes in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, that should be enough to bring folks together despite our pride and wanting to holfd to things taught that are incorrect and very provable in scripture. we should be able to remain together in spite of those differences, because our common faith is in the same savior.
remember Jesus said of a Kingdom.
mark 3:24 "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."
satan uses those kinds of things against people, so through false doctrine, He has divided folks who should be holding tightly together looking for commonalities in Christ, rather than labeling a denomination, or looking for any small difference in doctrine. i really believe God is Good and His will is that we wouls all repent and be saved so im not thinking Hes looking for a technicality to convict us by whi9ch particular church body we attend, or How exactly we pray or worship ect.... chaos and arguments are a device of the enemy working to divide the church because it weakens us and creates things like bitterness, arguing, slander and other things....