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We can look up the [[Doctrines of Jesus]] by reading those doctrines in the red-letter Bible. Since the Church was established by Christ we can easily reason that the doctrines of the Church must be limited to the [[Doctrines of Jesus]].
We can look up the [[Doctrines of Jesus]] by reading those doctrines in the red-letter Bible. Since the Church was established by Christ we can easily reason that the doctrines of the Church must be limited to the [[Doctrines of Jesus]].


That creation of new doctrines by men and the institutions of men who often "lack knowledge" of God will produce teachings contrary to Christ. The often fictional and [[private interpretation]]s by the [[Pharisees]], [[Sadducees]], and [[Zealots]] back then was and a myriad of [[modern Christians]] are a part of what Jesus meant when he referred to the need for us to "Beware of the [[Leaven]] of the [[Pharisees]]".<Ref name="beware">Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the [[Pharisees]] and of the [[Sadducees]].  ([Matthew 16]:6)
That creation of new [[doctrines by men]] and the institutions and practices of men who often "lack knowledge" of God will produce teachings contrary to Christ.  
 
The often fictional and [[private interpretation]]s by the [[Pharisees]], [[Sadducees]], and [[Zealots]] back then was pervasive. Their are a myriad of doctrines amongst the [[modern Christians]] that are a part of what Jesus meant when he referred to the need for us to "Beware of the [[Leaven]] of the [[Pharisees]]".<Ref name="beware">"Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the [[Pharisees]] and of the [[Sadducees]].  ([Matthew 16]:6)
: How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?  ([[Matthew 16]]:11)
: How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?  ([[Matthew 16]]:11)
: Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the [[Pharisees]] and of the [[Sadducees]].  ([Matthew 16]:12)
: Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the [[Pharisees]] and of the [[Sadducees]].  ([Matthew 16]:12)
: And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.  ([Mark 8]:15)
: And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.  ([Mark 8]:15)
: In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the [[leaven]] of the [[Pharisees]], which is hypocrisy.  ([Luke 12]:1)</Ref>
: In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the [[leaven]] of the [[Pharisees]], which is hypocrisy.  ([Luke 12]:1)</Ref>
=== Quora Question ===
'''[https://www.quora.com/Where-in-the-Bible-does-it-say-that-after-a-person-dies-they-go-to-heaven-or-hell-right-away Quora] asked the question "Where in the Bible does it say that after a person dies they go to heaven or hell right away?"''' Answer were all over the place yet the idea is common among many religions yet the Bible says very little about the idea.
<blockquote>
Someone wrote that at death we sleep and there is such a reference in the text when Jesus says Lazarus sleeps and he goes to wake him.<Ref>[[John 11]]:11  "These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep."</Ref> One individual on Quora added the comment that when we sleep we are “unaware of what is occurring around them”. This idea is added to the narrative by people’s imagination and is contrary to what we can see in the text. Many times in the Bible revelation, inspiration, and messages come to people when they sleep.
They go on with the statement “until they are resurrected at Jesus’ second coming” which is also a man made created doctrine from bits and pieces that are not detailed in the text as much as the many direct statements made by Jesus that seem fundamentally and consistently ignored.
There are many such doctrines created by [[modern Church|modern religions]] who do not practice “[[Pure Religion]]” or even know what that phrase means. They are so focused on these many “[[doctrines of men]]” until they become “[[workers of iniquity]]” and do not even see the obvious truth of what Jesus directly stated.
Some are already “asleep”. Some are even “dead”<Ref>[[Luke 9]]:60  "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God."
: [[Luke 15]]:32  It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
: [[1 Timothy 5]]:6  But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.</Ref> already according to Jesus because they “sit in [[darkness]]”.<Ref name="darkened">{{darkened}}</Ref>
</blockquote>
=== Meanings and means ===
You can make the bible mean whatever you want if you leave out the inconvenient [[truth]] and people often do. They often unmoor the [[metaphors]] from the meaning create these doctrines of men. There are many places in the Bible that suggest something about life after death but mostly it is concerned about what you do in this life. The foundational statement of the Gospel is to [[seek]] the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] and all else will take [[care]] of itself.<Ref name="kingdomnow">{{kingdomnow}}</Ref>


The [[metaphor]]s built into the Hebrew language lend themselves to creating new doctrines by denying alternative uses of words or by altering their meaning. The [[Pharisees]] were known to unmoor the meaning of the [[metaphor]] until they were worshiping the letter as they interpreted it leading to many false doctrines which created [[tradition]]s that ''weakened the poor''<Ref>Ezekiel_16:49  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
The [[metaphor]]s built into the Hebrew language lend themselves to creating new doctrines by denying alternative uses of words or by altering their meaning. The [[Pharisees]] were known to unmoor the meaning of the [[metaphor]] until they were worshiping the letter as they interpreted it leading to many false doctrines which created [[tradition]]s that ''weakened the poor''<Ref>Ezekiel_16:49  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Revision as of 10:13, 5 January 2024

Doctrines of men

We can look up the Doctrines of Jesus by reading those doctrines in the red-letter Bible. Since the Church was established by Christ we can easily reason that the doctrines of the Church must be limited to the Doctrines of Jesus.

That creation of new doctrines by men and the institutions and practices of men who often "lack knowledge" of God will produce teachings contrary to Christ.

The often fictional and private interpretations by the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Zealots back then was pervasive. Their are a myriad of doctrines amongst the modern Christians that are a part of what Jesus meant when he referred to the need for us to "Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees".[1]

Quora Question

Quora asked the question "Where in the Bible does it say that after a person dies they go to heaven or hell right away?" Answer were all over the place yet the idea is common among many religions yet the Bible says very little about the idea.

Someone wrote that at death we sleep and there is such a reference in the text when Jesus says Lazarus sleeps and he goes to wake him.[2] One individual on Quora added the comment that when we sleep we are “unaware of what is occurring around them”. This idea is added to the narrative by people’s imagination and is contrary to what we can see in the text. Many times in the Bible revelation, inspiration, and messages come to people when they sleep.

They go on with the statement “until they are resurrected at Jesus’ second coming” which is also a man made created doctrine from bits and pieces that are not detailed in the text as much as the many direct statements made by Jesus that seem fundamentally and consistently ignored.

There are many such doctrines created by modern religions who do not practice “Pure Religion” or even know what that phrase means. They are so focused on these many “doctrines of men” until they become “workers of iniquity” and do not even see the obvious truth of what Jesus directly stated.

Some are already “asleep”. Some are even “dead”[3] already according to Jesus because they “sit in darkness”.[4]

Meanings and means

You can make the bible mean whatever you want if you leave out the inconvenient truth and people often do. They often unmoor the metaphors from the meaning create these doctrines of men. There are many places in the Bible that suggest something about life after death but mostly it is concerned about what you do in this life. The foundational statement of the Gospel is to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all else will take care of itself.[5]

The metaphors built into the Hebrew language lend themselves to creating new doctrines by denying alternative uses of words or by altering their meaning. The Pharisees were known to unmoor the meaning of the metaphor until they were worshiping the letter as they interpreted it leading to many false doctrines which created traditions that weakened the poor[6] and the general population from the righteous ways of God.

There are traditions that have to do with the doctrines of men that counter the Doctrines of Jesus. Men create new things we are told we must believe in that Jesus never mentions. They impose the concepts on people which is bad enough but they often at the same time cause the people to walk in ways contrary to the Christ and The Way of righteousness.[7]

Men establish doctrines of their own by studying the Bible and constructing additional doctrines based on their private interpretation, study, depending on their conjecture rather than the true comforter.

Some of these doctrines of men may be true but some may be false or misleading.[8] using the Bible.

While we may certainly examine these doctrines of men we should never let them divide us into denominations for the denominator of the Church and the Kingdom of God is Christ alone. To fail to put His teachings first will allow false christs to overshadow the true Doctrines of Jesus with the traditions of men even if they are gleaned from the Bible.[9]

  1. ↑ "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. ([Matthew 16]:6)
    How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? (Matthew 16:11)
    Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. ([Matthew 16]:12)
    And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. ([Mark 8]:15)
    In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ([Luke 12]:1)
  2. ↑ John 11:11 "These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep."
  3. ↑ Luke 9:60 "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God."
    Luke 15:32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
    1 Timothy 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
  4. ↑ Eyes darkened
    Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
    Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"
    Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
    Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."
    Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
    Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."
    Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
    Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."
    Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”
    Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
    John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
    Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"
    2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
    Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
    Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
    1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
    John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.
  5. ↑ Kingdom at hand
    Luke 21:31 “‭So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”
    Matthew 3:2 “‭And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
    Matthew 4:17 “‭From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
    Matthew 10:7 “‭And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
    Mark 1:15 “‭And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
    Luke 22:16 “‭16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” and then he ate
    Luke 24:41-43 “‭36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you... ‭41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? 42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ‭43 And he took it, and did eat before them.”
  6. ↑ Ezekiel_16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
    And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Genesis 18:20
    The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Isaiah 3:9 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. Lamentations 4:6
  7. ↑ : Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
    2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
    2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
  8. ↑ Doctrines of the Bible By the man David Allen Reed listed here only as an example:
    Concerning God.
    His Being.
    : Attributes.
    The Trinity.
    His Works.
    Creation.
    Providence.
    Angels.
    Concerning Man.
    Created.
    Common Origin.
    Compound Being.
    Offspring of God.
    In God’s Image.
    Under Law.
    Concerning Sin.
    Its nature.
    Its extent and penalty.
    Concerning Redemption.
    Introductory and General Statements.
    The Person of the Redeemer.
    Truly God.
    Truly Man.
    Truly God and Man.
    The Work of the Redeemer As
    Prophet.
    Priest.
    King.
    The Work of the Holy Spirit in Redemption.
    The Work of Redemption Viewed In Its Relations to the Believer.
    The Union Between Christ and the Believer.
    Related Doctrines.
    Repentance.
    Faith.
    Regeneration.
    Justification.
    Adoption.
    Sanctification.
    The Union Between Believers: The Church and Its Institutions.
    Eschatology.
    Death, and the state of the soul after death.
    The resurrection.
    The second advent and the general judgment.
    Heaven and hell.
  9. ↑ Some men say WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT… THE BIBLE
    The Holy Spirit Guided human authors so that what thy wrote in Scripture is accurate and without error…Ultimately, the real value of the Bible is realized in our life as we apply the Scriptures to Life.
    GOD
    Our view of God will impact the way we live…God is defined as Spirit, a person, life, self-existent, unchanging, unlimited by time and space, and a unity….God consistently works out His eternal plan by guiding and overseeing all things by His wise and holy purpose.
    CHRIST
    Jesus was in fact God incarnate in human form. He is the second person in the Trinity who came to live among us, die for us, and resurrect that someday we might be able to live with Him forever.
    THE HOLY SPIRIT
    The Holy Spirit is not merely a force, but has all the attributes of personality and is also God as the third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit’s work brings us to Christ and salvation, equips us for ministry, empowers us for service, and produces spiritual fruit in our life. To better understand The Trinity, read this related Article
    PEOPLE
    People are unique beings. Contrary to the evolutionary view of origins, the biblical view of people identifies them as unique from animals, created in the image and likeness of God. People have both a physical and metaphysical aspect — body and soul or spirit. Because of our ancestral parent’s failure to obey God, sin was introduced into the human experience — causing the need for reconciliation to God our creator.
    SALVATION
    The single most significant experience in life is that involved in receiving the salvation provided by Christ on the Cross. This experience involves conversion, regeneration, justification, and sanctification and grants us eternal life with Christ.
    THE CHURCH
    Jesus instituted the church as a means of Christians assembling together to encourage and help one another in the Christian life and to enable them to be more effective in reaching out to others. In summary, the “ekklesia (Greek for church) is a group of “called-out ones” established for worship, instruction, fellowship, and evangelism.
    ESCHATOLOGY (END TIMES)
    Eschatology literally means “the study of last things.” The doctrine of eschatology can be divided into two themes: “personal eschatology” which is the study of God’s final judgements and the eternal state — heaven or hell — and “prophetic eschatology” which is the study of the second coming of Christ and the various events related to His return. Dr. Elmer Towns Foundational Doctrines of the Faith
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