We Who? - time to end?

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Bro Harvey scribeth:

>We know that according to Gal 1:8 that any man who preaches anytning
>diffrent than the apostolic doctrine is to be accursed.

Hmmmmmmm.... I think it says ...

 Ga 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other 
        gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, 
        let him be accursed. 

... so, I guess it says to preach the gospel that Paul preached.  "Gospel"
it says.... not doctrine.  Doctrine includes man interpretations of what
is gleaned from the bible in combination with current cultural influences 
plus heritage of the apostolic chain that brings the apostolic notions to 
the individual.  "Gospel" is the "good news of Jesus" about how He came to
save us from ourselves that we might walk in faith, love, and righteousness.

The reason why I'm declaring that "gospel" is different from "doctrine"
is the fact that the churches around (christian churches) have basically
the same gospel.  Jesus came, Jesus became sin for us, Jesus was the 
sacrifice for our sins, Jesus died, Jesus was buried, Jesus arose to
new life.  Gospel in a nutshell.  It doesn't matter at the core of the
gospel whether there's a oneness of God or not or whatever.  The message
of the gospel doesn't initially focus on doctrinal interpretations, it
focuses on Jesus.

Doctrine, to me, shows how the gospel is applied to everyday life.  
Certainly Baptists and Apostolics have different doctrine but they have 
a core gospel.  Amongst apostolics, doctrine doesn't even match from 
church to church or even organization to organization.  But amongst 
apostolics, there's even a core *doctrine* of application of what Jesus 
did for us and minimum requirements we have to enjoy in order to stay 
apostolic in our assemblies.  Outside of the core *doctrine* amongst 
apostolics, the docrine that the apostolics enjoy is as much diverse as 
it is outside of the apostolic movement.

That doesn't mean that doctrine is bad by any means.  Because we see
that ...

 2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
          profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, 
          for instruction in righteousness: 
       17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished 
          unto all good works. 

... so it's necessary to correctly form doctrine.  As there is 
rightly divided/formed doctrine and wrongly divided/formed 
doctrine.  The place where I think doctrine falls apart is when 
the *formed* doctrine supercedes or discounts that which is in 
Holy Scripture as it says ... 

 Re 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of 
          the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto 
          these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that 
          are written in this book: 
       19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book 
          of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the 
          book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things 
          which are written in this book. 

... which is a grave error when things are functionally added to
the mythical *perfect* christian walk that aren't there ... and 
things are *dismissed* from the christian walk that should be paid
attention to.

Bro Tyler
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