“Excuse me sir. We are arresting you because you do not look like our photofit picture or artist’s impression of you.“
That would be ridiculous. Yet this is how it looks when the realities of God revealed in actuality do not match our doctrines and we say our doctrines must be right. Indeed, we find church leaders insisting the doctrines they were taught at seminar or Bible institute must be true; how heretical to suggest they aren’t. The Holy Spirit never reveals things not found in the King James Bible, they say. God is always a Trinity, they say. Jesus is God, they say. Nobody can say these things are false, or so they say. Then, surprise, the Holy Spirit reveals something that is found nowhere, except it is similar to what is found only in the scriptures considered apocryphal. Then, surprise, the Lord Jesus agrees with the Father when the Father says ”I am God”. Heresy! the leaders cry. The leaders’ response might not be so far from the responses to Jesus’ teachings from troublesome leaders of religion in his gospel times. “Crucify the blasphemer!” “Stone him!” Yes, our doctrines are the best the churches could agree on, over the centuries leading up until today. Around 30 to 200 AD they were different to what they are today. Both cannot be right. Well the representation of reality and reality itself can be two different things, and often are two different things. But it is so ridiculous to say the reality is the one which is wrong. Ridiculous. But it keeps the leaders in their jobs.
