#doctrines

[palatinewolfsblog]

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be fools." Henry Louis Mencken.

[thirdity]

As you know, my dear friend, I began to distrust doctrines and teachers already as a young man, in the days when we were living among the penitents in the forest, and I turned my back on them. I have stuck to this. Nonetheless I have had many teachers since then. A beautiful courtesan was my teacher for a long time, and a wealthy merchant was my teacher, and a few dice players. Once, even an itinerant disciple of the Buddha was my teacher; he sat beside me when I had fallen asleep in the forest on a pilgrimage. From him as well I learned; to him as well I am grateful, very grateful. Most of all, however, I learned here, from this river, and from my predecessor, the ferryman Vasudeva. He was a very simple man, Vasudeva. He was not a thinker, but he knew what is necessary to know; just as much as Gautama he was a Perfect One, a saint.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[bills-bible-basics]

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Doctrinal and Spiritual Unity Graphic 06 #DoctrinalUnity #SpiritualUnity #SameDoctrines #UnityOfTheSpirit #SameMind "Doctrinal and Spiritual Unity" Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse013.html "One Body But Many Members" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse369.html "Avoid Arguing" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse002.html Article: "Should Christians Engage in Doctrinal Debates?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/Doctrinal-Debate-01.html "Broken Down the Middle Wall of Partition" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse463.html "Led by the Spirit in Our Understanding" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse479.html "Taught by No Man" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse465.html "Taught by Revelation of the Holy Spirit" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse319.html Article: "Humility in Our Understanding of God's Word": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/Humility-in-Our-Understanding-01.html

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Sometimes I think the doctrines doesn’t just affect the followers.

[wildlyplanted]

Holding on Too Tightly

Something I've been highly aware of lately is that we as humans can have a tendency to hold on to our opinions, notions or doctrines – whatever they are, so tightly that we refuse to acknowledge that other viewpoints are reasonable or valid.

Being open to hearing other sides, being flexible and adaptable, willing to change our perspective and sometimes our mind when life presents us a positive alternative makes us better as human beings. We don't have to think in the same way, or the same things we thought last year or even last month.

Unwilling to shift our mindset is a way of staying stuck, never evolving in our perspective or exploring something new. Remaining in the same space and preserving the same beliefs causes us to sometimes recreate the same scenarios over and over in our life. If we never or rarely try reaching for something beyond what is comfortable how can we make progress? How can we allow life to surprise us with the things we didn't know were possible or could not have imagined? How can we unfold and become greater versions of ourselves?

Don't be afraid of the unknown or what's on the other side of a changed outlook.

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[dustedcreationsblog]

Any "Christian" denomination/movement that advocates or preaches a different Jesus, uses a different "Bible", Gospel, way of salvation than what's in the Holy Bible is a false Jesus, "Bible", Gospel, way of salvation etc. It's an attempt from Satan to confuse, distort Christianity and to pervert the actual WAY, TRUTH & Life Of Jesus Christ, of The Gospel, of God's Word. Keep watch and make sure nobody deceives you in these (last) days. Read the Holy Bible and truly seek Jesus Christ with all your heart, He'll reveal Himself when you do so. For those in the faith, hold onto the truth that is shared through the Word of God by the Holy Spirit. There are many false teachers and prophets and let me ask you, where are they infiltrating? THE CHURCH, they're the WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING! THEY'LL COME WITH DIFFERENT DOCTRINES CAUSED TO DIVIDE AND LEAD THOSE WHO ARE LEARNING/DON'T READ THEIR BIBLES ASTRAY. BE STEADY IN YOUR FAITH, SPEND TIME IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PRESENCE. DON'T FALL AWAY.

[lettersfromgod]

"For you have altogether become as the pagan and the heathen among whom you dwell, a rotten stalk of wheat in a valley of tares, where the latter rain has ceased and the sun narrowly breaks through the clouds. For you are a people who gather together in The Messiah’s name (whom you call Christ), yet your visage has become altogether as that of the world, a people who take the name of The Lord in vain continually by your corrupt doctrines and filthy traditions, even by all your holidays, which I hate!" ~ Says The Lord 📖 Excerpt from: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Churches_of_Men,_Hear_The_Word_of_The_Lord ▶ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7pxT_JoN9E&list=PLE8FlkxQPQkP4Ljrix_obl1uYSx1VNyqE&index=29

[macrolit]

The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience, or devotional practice was that it must lead directly to practical compassion. If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express this sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, or self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God’s name, it was bad theology. Compassion was the litmus test for the prophets of Israel, for the rabbis of the Talmud, for Jesus, for Paul, and for Muhammad, not to mention Confucius, Lao-tsu, the Buddha, or the sages of the Upanishads.

Karen Armstrong (b. 1944) British author, comparative religion scholar