Imagine a thick fog 20 feet deep over a square acre of ground.
If you condensed all the water in that fog into a liquid, how many one-gallon jugs would you need to contain it all?
Not more than one, and only a third of it!
The reason you want to develop your own understanding of important doctrinal beliefs - and revise those beliefs as you mature in faith - is not so you can get a perfect score on God's doctrine test.
None of us can ever get a perfect score on such a test. One or two warped ideas concerning doctrines of the Christian faith may not be all that harmful in themselves.
Certainly not to our salvation.
The problem comes when that warped doctrine is atomized, obscuring your clear view of every other truth claim otherwise available to you in Scripture.
The fog of false doctrine can leave even the most solid truth ghostlike to your eyes - dim, unrecognizable, or completely hidden.
And that's going to slow down your progress in the faith.
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