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Getting our doctrine in order

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Ian Harber
Oct 20, 2024
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The Sunday Pages is a weekly newsletter for paid subscribers that rounds up five interesting links for the week, recommends a book with highlights of about a dozen meaningful quotes from the book, and includes occasional updates on personal projects.

One thing that was a huge stumbling block for me when I was growing up was the way that all doctrines were presented as equal. Equal in importance, certainty, and necessity. This made discipleship difficult when I started having questions around, say, creation or predestination or whatever else and my salvation would be called into question every time I asked a question.

I’ll never forget working through my beliefs around creation and suggesting in a Bible class that Genesis 1 might be more poetic than something like video camera footage of the first moments of creation and a fellow classmate and my Bible teacher just flatly told me that if I believed that I couldn’t be a Christian.

It didn’t seem right to me, but I also didn’t have any other categories. That’s one of the reasons I’m incredibly grateful for this book (not to mention my gratitude to the author more generally).

Links Included: why people deconstruct, why “being on the right side of history” misses the mark, Jake Meador’s brilliant train of thought, the cultural fallout of divorce, C.S. Lewis on emotions.


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