Ridgell's Originals

It is easier than you think to add to what God says.  Here is how Christians can end up claiming God said things that he did not say.

Good Bible students apply principles and make applications from Scripture to form an opinion.

That opinion becomes practice and over time we forget how we decided it originally.

If not careful, our opinion becomes the right way to do something.

Then it become the only right way.

Then it becomes entrenched doctrine.

So anyone who believes different is wrong.

And if they are wrong, then of course their differing opinion is sin.

So they are not a Bible believing, New Testament church.

And having failed to remember how we came to certain conclusions, we then preach against those that do not agree with our conclusion.

And draw lines of fellowship about it.

Getting defensive when anyone asks us why we believe what we do.

So we claim God said it.

Even when he didn't.

And that is how you go from a reasonable opinion/decision based on interpretation and application to a rigid defense of what God never said.

Adding to Scripture.

And that is what is dangerous.

And that is the real sin.