Doctrine is putting in a systematic way what the Bible teaches. Doctrine is not inventing something that is not in the Bible. If you are to study the Bible you will believe doctrine. Every Christians holds a doctrinal belief. No Christian just believes the Bible, as if he believes the Bible without forming a doctrinal opinion about what the Bible teaches. That is a rediculious position.
2006-06-28 09:00:43 · 15 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the bible is full of doctrines and they don't contradict each other
2006-06-28 09:08:34 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with your statement is that doctrine is inventing something! It is a persons interputation of the Bible and since the translation of the Bible was incorrect to begin with, Then doctrine is based an errors, made from the first translation. Example: The Virgin Mary: the correct translation was pure soul, not the same thing right.
2006-06-28 09:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by olderandwiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctrine n. a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. wordnet By it's definition a doctrine is subjective to the belief of the individual or group of individuals. Are you saying that if I read the bible on my own that I will come to believe as you because of the way that it was written? Suppose I don't accept your authority? Did you write the Bible? Then your translation is as good as mine. I have read it and I don't take it literally as most Christians do. But what you are saying is that I'm wrong if I don't see it the way you do. Then that could only mean one thing. YOU ARE GOD! Praise you.
2006-06-28 09:15:39 · answer #3 · answered by changRdie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is when a group of people force THEIR particular doctrine on others. Not even the Bible supports that.
But the Bible was written by men in the first place. If God exists and you want to find God, you should probably look within your heart.
2006-06-28 09:04:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if it wasn't manmade. The way we live would still mirror the Jewish faith exactly. The bible has been changed many times over the past 2000 years. If the one you study is not in Latin, and is not older than the first bible printed on a press, it has too many inacuracy to be considered the absolute truth.
2006-06-28 09:06:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not write the Bible, man did - and many years after the facts. Then there were so many translations - that facts could have surely been fouled up. It's also possible that there are missing parts of the Bible - for instance, where was Jesus between His birth in the manger, and His death on the cross?
2006-06-28 09:06:11 · answer #6 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is nothing in Christianity which is original - not the idea of a resurrection, not the idea of a trinity, not the concept of a "son of god" or hybrid god, not a virgin mother, not christmas, not anything - everything in Christianity (to be fair, most religions) borrow from another culture, another religion, and are a manmade collection of various components, picked and chosen and canonized into a new "religion".
2006-06-28 09:07:24 · answer #7 · answered by rt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only doctrine I fellow is in the Red Letters. If Jesus said it then it is Gospel.
Anything else is mans ideas.
Dead Man Walking
2006-06-28 09:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by Dead Man Walking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although my Church have a doctrinal statement I don't like it because no Church should select certain subjects like that. My website does not have a doctrinal statement. Read what I wrote. its short. http://godwetrust.net/MyMission.html
2006-06-28 09:08:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh, im a non practicing christian, and i think the bible is manmade, therefore any doctrine would be too.
2006-06-28 09:03:12 · answer #10 · answered by thale138 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋