Doctrine should come straight from the Bible, not from steps of logic and reasoning. (example—Concluding that the rapture must be at Revelation 3 because the church is not mentioned after that for many chapters, could be true but based on mental calculating rather than clearly stated).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examine the foundation steps for building any doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is the starting premise black-and-white Biblical?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would the people in the Bible, and those who wrote the Bible, declare, agree, that the doctrine is absolutely essential?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, what benefit is any doctrine or any teaching that is not straightforward out of the Bible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep essential doctrines simple, and not limited to the learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doctrine should come straight from the Bible, not from steps of logic and reasoning. (example—Concluding that the rapture must be at Revelation 3 because the church is not mentioned after that for many chapters, could be true but based on mental calculating rather than clearly stated). Examine the foundation steps for building any doctrine. Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4452,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}