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Doctrine is real. It is exact. It has merit. It needs to believed or one isn't a Christian. (Leaving out the part where we come as we are and don't know it all as new or, sometimes, fairly new believers.)
Examples of doctrines:
-- Salvation is through Christ. He is the only way.
-- While on earth Jesus was 100% God and 100% Man.
-- God is triune -- Father, Son and Spirit. Three-in-one.
And then there is the denomination stuff.
-- PCA (my denomination) is against women Elders.
-- Baptists want full-emersion and as adults, never as babies.
-- SDA believes Sabbath is Saturday.
-- Some denominations think you have to speak in tongues as a sigh of being baptized in the Holy Spirit.
It is important to those of us in those denominations, but it isn't doctrine. It isn't universally accepted as the Christian message, so it's not doctrine.
Right? Okay, so my question. What is that stuff called then?
Examples of doctrines:
-- Salvation is through Christ. He is the only way.
-- While on earth Jesus was 100% God and 100% Man.
-- God is triune -- Father, Son and Spirit. Three-in-one.
And then there is the denomination stuff.
-- PCA (my denomination) is against women Elders.
-- Baptists want full-emersion and as adults, never as babies.
-- SDA believes Sabbath is Saturday.
-- Some denominations think you have to speak in tongues as a sigh of being baptized in the Holy Spirit.
It is important to those of us in those denominations, but it isn't doctrine. It isn't universally accepted as the Christian message, so it's not doctrine.
Right? Okay, so my question. What is that stuff called then?