Doctrines
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Also: doctrinal.
In the spiritual fellowship of the believer-son with the divine Father there can never be doctrinal finality and sectarian superiority of group consciousness. 182:1.8
believers should reply to dogmatism with more farseeing dogmatism 102:7.7-9
There exists in all personality associations of the cosmic mind a quality which might be denominated the “reality response” which saves creatures from becoming helpless victims of the implied a priori assumptions of science, philosophy, and religion. 16:6.4
The doctrinal fetish lead mortal man to betray himself into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of barbarous cruelties. 88:2.7
Sectarianism is a disease of institutional religion, and dogmatism is an enslavement of the spiritual nature. 99:6.1
stereotyped religious doctrines and dogmas are the false refuge resorted to by indolent men trying to avoid the rigors of truly religious pursuits 102:2.7
Jesus deplored dogmatism. Again and again he warned his apostles against the formulation of creeds and the establishment of traditions as a means of guiding and controlling believers in the gospel of the kingdom. 141:5.4
The religions of authority crystallize into lifeless creeds; the religion of the spirit grows into the increasing joy and liberty of ennobling deeds of loving service and merciful ministration. 155:6.9
In olden times the fetish word of authority was a fear-inspiring doctrine, the most terrible of all tyrants which enslave men. 88:2.7
Only an unqualified reality, an absolute, could dare consistently to be dogmatic. 102:7.8
Our philosophy struggles for emancipation from dogma and tradition. 12:9.5
The dead theory of even the highest religious doctrines is powerless to transform human character or to control mortal behavior. 34:6.6
religions can agree on values while maintaining belief in conflicting creeds 103:1.4
religious groups should remove all creedal pressure from its members 103:5.12
Man can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas, and rituals—these are intellectual; but they can, and some day will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all, for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit all men are equal. 92:7.4
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Sacred book fetish 88:2.7 — Is 11:12; Rev 7:1.
- Not in word only, in power 34:6.6 — Zec 4:6; 1 Th 1:5.