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Doctrine, How so?

"But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you"

Paul wanted his followers [1 Cor 4:16, 11:1] to know who God is as Father, the LORD Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit are.  Paul gave himself and his followers then as ensamples [1 Cor 10:11, 2 Thess 3:9] showing us how we are to walk in this new life in Christ.  This had never been done before in any writings.  Paul and Paul alone has given us, the body of Christ doctrine to be believed and lived.    

Doctrine is listed six in the Old Testament, twelve times in the gospels, several times in the later epistles of James, Peter, and John.  But Paul writes of "doctrine" some twenty-three times.  From that, I see that doctrine is most important for the believer today.  Why is that?  The Jew, Israel had the law to direct them in times past [Eph 2:2] and ages to come [2:7].   But Gentiles [Eph 2:12] hadn't any direction, we were all destitute and dead to God.  "But God" [Eph 2:4] we are "saved by grace through faith" [Eph 2:5-10]; a whole new way to be saved and to live [Rom 1:17b, Gal 3:11].

Without direction, we would never be to the glory of God being made a new creation; "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Paul in his epistles to Timothy gave doctrine some twelve times, it's well worth the reading, both 1st and 2nd Timothy, and four times to Titus.  m From that I believe doctrine is of the utmost importance to today's "new creature".

"Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto first of all that which I also received,  how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scripture."  1 Corinthians 15:1-4 [AKJV]

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