The Sunday Pages | 017

Getting our doctrine in order

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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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