The Bible is not a book of doctrines

Anyone who has seriously read their bible knows this is true. There are no clear doctrines found in the bible. If this was the case then all churches would adhere to the same set of doctrines but as we all know the universal Christian church has split into countless fractions all over tiny (or sometimes not so tiny) differences in

If there was a way to just read scripture and distill a simple teaching from it, it would have been done, and we would all be in agreement as to what the text actual...