Presbyrino
Puritan Board Freshman
Originally posted by kceaster
And contrary to what's been said previously, love does not conquer doctrinal divisions. True love cannot be had or practiced without the unity of the Spirit of Truth. What fellowship can we have with error? None. There are battles to fight and hills to die on. We don't kill each other over the minutia like the Romans have and still do.
The creeds, the three forms of unity, the Westminster Confession and catechisms, and the various other documents that are like them are all in agreement. If we would be unified, we should unify around these. A great company of witnesses have been unified by them. We should carry on their legacy.
In Christ,
KC
MEGA
I never understand when an attempt to try to pit "Love" against Truth or "Spirit" against Truth as the solution to disunity. I recall hearing Dr. Bahnsen saying that to pit love against truth is a false dicotomy and it is like saying "I would rather fly an airplane with the right wing instead of the left wing". Absurd! The fact is that truth will divide (and should divide us from error). Even our Lord's word's attest to this fact:
Mat 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Mat 10:36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
Mat 10:37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.