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When Doctrine Divides the People of God: An Evangelical Approach to Theological Diversity is unavailable, but you can change that!

As evangelicals, we desire to be biblical—we want our doctrine to be rooted in the Bible, our lives to be guided by the Bible, and our disagreements to be resolved by the Bible. And yet, conflicts within our church communities continue to appear and seemingly multiply with time. Interpretations of the Bible and deeply held convictions often put Christians at odds. Encouraging us toward grace in...

“strange thing” (Hos. 8:11–12). Believers also endure the effects of sin on the mind, and their minds are in need of renewal (Rom. 12:1–2; Eph. 4:20–24). But as Stephen Moroney remarks, the Bible does not explicitly say how human thinking is corrupted by sin and what the renewal of the mind does to alleviate these effects.54 The human heart is prone to self-deception (Jer. 17:9; cf. Prov. 14:12; 28:26). Interpreters can likewise be guilty of reading texts in self-serving ways. For this reason, biblical
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