Many of the hippest, coolest, more-influential-than-me-people, are super-concerned that I’m making doctrine too big a deal. These hip, cool, influential folks are TEACHING me that relationships are more important than anything I’ve been TAUGHT.
Zach wants me to KNOW that it is bad to emphasize KNOWING. My dogmas should never take priority over his dogma that my children ought to come first. He wants to tell me that people matter more than the belief that people matter!
The wisdom of this age is a doctrine that opposes doctrine. Lunatic preachers say insane things like, “Love Over Verses” and amass huge numbers of clueless followers. “Yes! Yes! The Bible tells us that loving people is more important than anything in the Bible!”
Let me break it down.
“Choosing theological assertions over relationships is wrong,” — is itself a theological assertion. ANY statement you (or Jesus) make is a doctrine (a statement of belief). Suggesting that relationships exist apart from beliefs about relationships is incoherent (absurd, insane, idiotic…take your pick).
God is not a God of confusion. The clap-trap from these hip, cool, influential teachers is antithetical to the way of Jesus.
(Matthew 13:12) Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.”
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The prodigal son’s father did not chase after the relationship…..he patiently waited (and prayed) for his child to “figure it out”. He did NOT himself go running into a life of debauchery to “keep the relationship”……..
Jesus said that we need to love instead of listening to what he says. Surely you know this.
Thank you for giving the definition of incoherent. That helps to understand. ☺️