Doctrine Alone doesn't save anyone

[robert derrick]

There are some Christians who think their doctrine alone, like their faith alone, can save and justify them with God.

They think what they believe and teach themselves is more important than what they are doing.

No Christian ascends the hill of the Lord by doctrine alone, with unclean hearts and hands.

No one can indoctrinate themselves into heaven.

Some think they can arrive in the presence of the Lord by the power of their own doctrine alone, that they tell themselves and try to convince others of, as though the more others agree with them, then the more they can be sure of it.

 

[robert derrick]

Examples of doctrinally going to heaven, no matter what we are doing on earth:
-We are righteous, even when doing unrighteousness
-We are not condemned anymore, even when doing evil.
-We are saved in heavenly places forever, and no more judged responsible for what we do on earth.
-God does not see our sin, even when sinning.
-We are going to heaven by faith alone, even when not doing the word and truth.

All of these have the same thing in common: believing that by our doctrine alone, we will be in the first resurrection of the blessed, no matter what we may be doing at the end of this life.

It is all doctrine surety of one's own heart and mind, and has nothing to do with doing good or evil.

In the end, such teachings are the doctrinal product of people that believe they are going to heaven, so long as they believe it, and so corrupt Scripture to prove it to themselves.

That is the delusion of all people, who vainly try to separate themselves from their own deeds. They really think God must receive them in heaven, because their own doctrine of their own faith alone declares He must do so, because their own word says so.