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Originally Posted by votivesoul
It seems to me very little has to be agreed upon in order to be a Christian. I think the list looks like this:
1.) Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
2.) God raised Jesus from the dead.
3.) We must be born again through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. Gospel.
4. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and not of works.
5. We need to love God and one another, i.e. the 1st and 2nd Commandments
6. We need to love Jesus at His appearing, i.e. maintain our blessed hope.
7. The Bible is the final authority for faith and practice.
Granted, all of the above can get difficult to agree upon, when we start in on specifics, but if we all could agree on the above, even if we didn't agree on every specific thing, I think, by love, grace, and forbearance, we could maintain unity of the Body and be pleasing to Christ.
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You gave seven DOCTRINES. Now demonstrate your AUTHORITY for those doctrines?
How do arrive at those doctrines? What METHOD did you use to come to those seven conclusions?
See what I am asking?