[Here Am I]

Originally Posted by BrianT

I have two concerns/questions about the original post:

1. Who gets to authoritatively decide what is "sound Biblical Doctrine"?

God, in His word, the Bible, backed by the Holy Spirit.

2. Isn't the implication of the original post that if two Christians are not in 100% agreement with each other doctrinally AND they are not in 100% agreement with sound Biblical doctrine (i.e. rather than just what they may mistakenly think sound Biblical doctrine is), isn't at least one of them a "heretick"?

"Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." (Matthew 23:24)

If you have discernment, and study, and search the Scriptures, then by the teaching of God, you will understand the difference between sound and other doctrine. ""But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 John 2:27)

But without trusting in God and the infallibility of His word, you will be anchorless, adrift, in a sea of conflicting ideas proposed by men.