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True oneness is not to be achieved through believing people ignoring doctrinal differences.
Doctrinal differences arise as result of someone thinking and believing wrongly.
Hence, real unity is achieved only when those who err are made to see the light and come to the light.
In other words, God’s people are one only to the extent that they all consciously abide in Christ.
The divisions in the church are not representative of an ideal state.
Christ’s will is that His people be one.
And it is the solemn duty of every believer to work for unity not through his renouncing what he holds to be the truth but through His making sure whether what he holds to be truth is truth,
and secondly through his assailing false beliefs and doctrines in order that those ensnared by the lie may be won for the truth.
The truth is a source of comfort to God’s people only to that extent that it is unmixed with error.
Reformed Calvinistic Confessions are formed by the truth of scripture
Doctrinal differences arise as result of someone thinking and believing wrongly.
Hence, real unity is achieved only when those who err are made to see the light and come to the light.
In other words, God’s people are one only to the extent that they all consciously abide in Christ.
The divisions in the church are not representative of an ideal state.
Christ’s will is that His people be one.
And it is the solemn duty of every believer to work for unity not through his renouncing what he holds to be the truth but through His making sure whether what he holds to be truth is truth,
and secondly through his assailing false beliefs and doctrines in order that those ensnared by the lie may be won for the truth.
The truth is a source of comfort to God’s people only to that extent that it is unmixed with error.
Reformed Calvinistic Confessions are formed by the truth of scripture