Why are there disputes on issues concerning matters of
faith amongst the international Christian body when the doctrine of
Christianity features the notion of the existence of an omniscient Holy Spirit
that guides individual believers to the appraisal of truths pertaining to
matters of faith? Does this necessarily connote that one believer or the other
is lacking in certain access in his communication with the Holy Spirit, thereby
leading to the divergence of perspectives? And indeed, there are some believers
in various sects or denominations who would stake their position on matters of
theology as the correct one by virtue of its culmination by divine guidance from
God or the Holy Spirit, and dismiss other school of thoughts on the matter with
impunity.
Again, I have seen cases where a believer asks a question
on Christian matters that confounds him, and he is replied by another that he
should asks God about it, which will resolve all uncertainties to the matter.
My common sense tells me that the matters of
interpretation of scripture and on perspectives given to matters of faith, is
as much a human endeavor which bears from itself divergences of thoughts, as much
as such human inquiries are made into other domains of knowledge like the
sciences. But I could see myself being countered by the objection that the Holy
Spirit is a resource from which all disputes can be resolved equitably, and
that my way of thinking about interpretation of scripture estranges the concept
of divine guidance in matters of faith.
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