I was thinking about my post from a couple days ago, specifically the aspect of "doctrine." What is "good doctrine?" What is it that makes doctrine "good?" In II Timothy Paul warns Timothy that:
"the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." II Timothy 4:3-4
We have a number of Paul's writings available to us in the New Testament and we can readily discern much of what Paul must have meant by "sound doctrine."
But what do we mean when we speak of doctrine? Could we sit down and write our own version of a doctrinal statement? How would our doctrinal statement square up the whole of the Scriptures? Would our doctrine reflect what we want to believe or would it reflect what God has revealed? Would it reveal that we exercised a proper hermeneutic in coming to our doctrinal understanding, our would it reveal that we exercised a hermeneutic used to validate a predetermined position? Does our doctrine accurately and properly reflect who God is, or is it a position statement that stakes out who I am.
Is it about you? Or is it about God?
What do your "ears" tell you?
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