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I have dogmas

Would you have believed it if I didn’t tell you? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. The truth is that everyone (yes, I just made a blanket statement) has some kind of dogma. Whether it’s that Jesus is NOT the only way to the Father, whether He IS the only way, or what ever exclusivity you posses, you have dogmas that you think are uncompromising. I think certain dogmas help help us, but the challenge is accepting others in spite of our dogmas without feeling like we have to change.

One of my biggest dogmas is Sola Fide: through Faith Alone. This means that salvation is through faith alone. There is nothing man can do to make himself “right” before God. He does not gain salvation, rather it is gifted to him (Rom. 5:2; Eph. 2:8). Another dogma I have is that we are saved to glorify God and serve as a testimony to His love and grace, not to become prosperous and little “g’s” of our own (many false teachers claim we are little gods, which is a heresy prevalent in the Christian church today). I do not think that our words have cosmic power, rather we have the ability to pray, thus God – upon His own will – chooses to respond to these prayers compiled of words. It is not the intrinsic nature of words that have power.

So, what is your dogma? Please do share!

- Jonathan J.