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    I explained what doctrine really means and it is the essentials of the faith for salvation and belief.

    A person who has correct doctrine is still saved even if they live a powerless life whereas as someon who has flawed doctrine means a person has embraced a false belief that can eventually destroy their faith

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    A person who has correct doctrine, better than yours or mine, can still be completely void of the Son. Making room in the heart is different to professing alignment to doctrine, people may do that for all kinds of other reasons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    A person who has correct doctrine, better than yours or mine, can still be completely void of the Son. Making room in the heart is different to professing alignment to doctrine, people may do that for all kinds of other reasons.
    Don't want to split hairs but the term doctrine has been misused for decades so people think it means dead customs or traditions.

    If they have correct doctrine it means they believe it. Doctrine means you accept the essentials of that particular religion or group.

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    It's possible to align oneself internally with correct doctrine and never open one's heart and therefore never be born again.

    1 John 5:12 the one who has the Son has life.

    John 1:12 But as many as received Him,*to*them He*gave*the*right*to become children of God,*to*those who believe in His name:

    Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the*door*and*knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the*door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

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    And its the WIFE who showed him that he needed LIFE, not just intellect. This is all too often the case with those who overemphasize the intellect at the cost of a living relationship with the Lord. I was over-intellectual myself, while my wife, of simple faith, accomplished great things in things like worship and prayer. Thank God for marriages where we can learn from each other the imbalances and missing elements that we need to rebalance.

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    AW Tozer writes:
    When the apostle cries "That I may know him," he uses the word know not in its intellectual but in its experiential sense. We must look for the meaning—not to the mind but to the heart. Theological knowledge is knowledge about God. While this is indispensable it is not sufficient. It bears the same relation to man's spiritual need as a well does to the need of his physical body.

    It is not the rock-lined pit for which the dusty traveler longs, but the sweet, cool water that flows up from it. It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man's ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and Presence of God Himself. These come to us through Christian doctrine, but they are more than doctrine. Christian truth is designed to lead us to God, not to serve as a substitute for God.

    Tozer, A. W.. Keys to the Deeper Life (Kindle Locations 148-154). Chariot eBooks. Kindle Edition.
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