There is nothing wrong with theology, I have spent much of my life studying theology, but I personally believe if you cannot explain what you believe merely from the Bible, you should be careful about being dogmatic, because immediately you are open to challenges. You take a conclusion here, a conclusion there, and you make another conclusion. You take that conclusion and make another conclusion.
You know what? A lot of those conclusions are still true but they are no longer directly found in the Scriptures. You can only find it by having an awful lot of pages of discussion and saying 'because of this and because of this...' That is what causes great divisions between people.
The problem is that some of the conclusions out there get so detached from the Bible, it is what is called Theological drift. Right there is what most people have problems with. There is a portion of the Reformation doctrine that you can't find in the Bible unless you quote some theologians. You can't say Paul said it, you have to go back to Calvin himself or whoever.
Let's take a closer look at today's denominations and where all these differences came from...
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Pastor John Barnett has been devouring the Word of God for over 30 years. John, now the teaching pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan has served congregations in Oklahoma, New England, Georgia and California. He also served on the Faculty of the Master's College...
