Galatians 1:6-9

When you read the Bible for the first time in faith, you can find yourself flummoxed at the divisions we see around us.  How can this one book output scores of different groups and fellowships—all of which believe in its importance and often its inspiration—all with key differences and disagreements.  Some are minor: questions of interest but of little impact (ie: who wrote Hebrews?  Is the Holy Spirit’s indwelling literal or figurative?).  While others are unignorable (ie: how does a person become a Christian?  What does God expect of me?  Are there 66 inspired books of the Bible?  More?  Fewer?).

The question of the day is, does it even matter?  Are we to find full fellowship with those who disagree not only on minor questions, but on major ones?  How important is it that we “get it right”?  To answer that question, we must ask ourselves: what did the inspired writers of the Bible teach?