These differences are not clearly laid out, therefore each person may have their own interpretation. To more easily find like minded people, we may group ourselves to a certain denomination, that’s ok.
Actually it's not okay, because if anyone can make up their own interpretation, then how do you know the verses in Scripture mean what you think they mean? Where do you derive the basis for discerning what is true and untrue? If anyone can make up their own denomination, whats wrong with Mormons or Jehovahs Witnesses? By what means can you say their interpretation is incorrect? And how do you know what the "basics of the Gospel" are if it's just your own interpretation? Maybe I disagree with what you think the basics are, whos to say either is right or wrong?
The answer is the Church! And of course these differences are laid out, thats why the Church has councils like the Apostles did in the Apostolic times of the Church, look to Acts 15.
I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth
1 Timothy 3:15
These differences are not clearly laid out, therefore each person may have their own interpretation. To more easily find like minded people, we may group ourselves to a certain denomination, that’s ok.
Actually it's not okay, because if anyone can make up their own interpretation, then how do you know the verses in Scripture mean what you think they mean? Where do you derive the basis for discerning what is true and untrue? If anyone can make up their own denomination, whats wrong with Mormons or Jehovahs Witnesses? By what means can you say their interpretation is incorrect?
The answer is the Church! And of course these differences are laid out, thats why the Church has councils like the Apostles did in the Apostolic times of the Church, look to Acts 15.
I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth
1 Timothy 3:15