As Jesus is the cornerstone upon which the Church is built, so are his teachings the unifying cornerstone of Christian doctrine.

False Christian Values

I once met a Christian who proudly proclaimed that she had never had a drop of alcohol in her entire life. That would be laudable if it was a Christian value, but it is not. It has absolutely nothing to do with real Christianity as Mark 7:1-23 explains. Not only was her anti-alcohol stance a contradiction of Jesus’ own example (he turned water to wine and blessed communion wine), it was also a contradiction of Paul’s advice to a minister under his supervision (he recommended that Timothy drink a little wine). How do we get such pseudo-Christian values? Mark’s Gospel explains these things as worshiping God in vain with teachings that are merely human rules. All churches contain such errors, human traditions and rules that we somehow assume to be of divine authority. We simply must discern the difference.

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