The document discusses why doctrine is important and should be cared about. It begins by providing biblical examples from Luke and Acts where Jesus refutes doctrinal errors and establishes the importance of sound doctrine based on scripture. The document then summarizes various views of God, including atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, and monotheism. It also outlines key aspects of God's nature such as Him being incomprehensible yet knowable, self-existent, a spirit, personal, transcendent, immanent, infinite, and constant. The overall message is that doctrine matters and Christians should work to deepen their theological understanding based on what is taught in scripture.

1. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT
DOCTRINE
Text: Luke 20:27-40

2. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Tolerance and unity
are the most important thing
today.

3. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Life, experience, and feelings
are what matter.

4. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is
no resurrection, came to Jesus with a
question. 28 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses
wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and
leaves a wife but no children, the man must
marry the widow and raise up offspring for
his brother…

5. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
…29 Now there were seven brothers. The first
one married a woman and died childless.
30 The second 31 and then the third married
her, and in the same way the seven died,
leaving no children. 32 Finally, the woman
died too…

6. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
…33 Now then, at the resurrection whose wife
will she be, since the seven were married to
her?” 34 Jesus replied, “The people of this age
marry and are given in marriage…

7. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
… 35 But those who are considered worthy of
taking part in the age to come and in the
resurrection from the dead will neither marry
nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no
longer die; for they are like the angels. They
are God’s children, since they are children of
the resurrection…

8. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
…37 But in the account of the burning bush,
even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he
calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38 He is
not the God of the dead, but of the living, for
to him all are alive.” …

9. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Luke 20:27-40
…39 Some of the teachers of the law
responded, “Well said, teacher!” 40 And no
one dared to ask him any more questions.

10. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 23:8
8 (The Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, and that there are neither
angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe
all these things.)

11. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Mark 12:24-27
24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because
you do not know the Scriptures or the power
of God? 25 When the dead rise, they will
neither marry nor be given in marriage; they
will be like the angels in heaven…

12. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Mark 12:24-27
… 26 Now about the dead rising—have you
not read in the Book of Moses, in the account
of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I
am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of
the dead, but of the living. You are badly
mistaken!”

13. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1. You should care about doctrine because
Jesus did.

14. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
A. JESUS TAUGHT THAT THERE IS SUCH A
THING AS DOCTRINAL TRUTH AND
DOCTRINAL ERROR, AND THAT TRUTH
MATTERS.

15. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
“Hey, it really doesn’t matter what you guys
believe, just as long as you’re sincere.”

16. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
“I love you guys! You’re my brothers, even if
we disagree over this little matter of the
resurrection!”

17. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
“I respect your views. Everyone is entitled
to his own opinion.”

18. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
‘…the intellectual community has relegated religion
to the realm of opinion as opposed to knowledge. It
is simply a matter of one subjective and uncertain
opinion versus another. Undergirding this is the view
that all truth is relative and that tolerance the chief
virtue…The point is not to correct the mistakes and
really be right; rather it is not to think you are right
at all”. (Allan Bloom)

19. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
B. JESUS SHOWS US THAT THE SOURCE OF
SOUND DOCTRINE IS NOT HUMAN
REASON, BUT SCRIPTURE PROPERLY
INTERPRETED.

20. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Mark 12:24
“Is this not the reason you are mistaken,
that you do not understand the Scriptures,
or the power of God?”

21. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1) Don’t buy into the current trend to
sacrifice core biblical truth on the altar
of love and unity.

22. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1) Don’t buy into the current trend to
sacrifice core biblical truth on the altar
of love and unity.
2) Work at deepening your theological
understanding.

23. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
The Doctrine of God: Theology

24. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the
Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see
that in every way you are very religious.
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully
at your objects of worship, I even found an
altar with this inscription: to an unknown
god…

25. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
… So you are ignorant of the very thing you
worship—and this is what I am going to
proclaim to you. 24 “The God who made the
world and everything in it is the Lord of
heaven and earth and does not live in
temples built by human hands...

26. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
…25 And he is not served by human hands, as
if he needed anything. Rather, he himself
gives everyone life and breath and everything
else. 26 From one man he made all the
nations, that they should inhabit the whole
earth; …

27. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
… and he marked out their appointed times in
history and the boundaries of their lands.
27 God did this so that they would seek him
and perhaps reach out for him and find him,
though he is not far from any one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our
being.’ …

28. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
… As some of your own poets have said, ‘We
are his offspring.’ 29 “Therefore since we are
God’s offspring, we should not think that the
divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an
image made by human design and skill…

29. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Acts 17:22-31
…30 In the past God overlooked such
ignorance, but now he commands all people
everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day
when he will judge the world with justice by
the man he has appointed. He has given
proof of this to everyone by raising him from
the dead.”

30. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
Psalm 14:1
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no
one who does good.

31. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
Romans 1:2
2 … the gospel he promised beforehand through
his prophets in the Holy Scriptures…

32. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
Romans 3:3
3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their
unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?

33. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
2. Agnostics

34. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Romans 1:20
20 For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—his eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been
made, so that people are without excuse.

35. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
2. Agnostics
3. Pantheism

36. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Genesis 1:2
2 Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters.

37. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Genesis 2:7
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the
dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and the man
became a living being.

38. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Psalm 97:9
For you, Lord, are the Most High over all the
earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

39. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Isaiah 55:8
8 “For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways,” declares the Lord.

40. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Romans 11:33
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom
and knowledge of God! How unsearchable
his judgments, and his paths beyond
tracing out!

41. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
2. Agnostics
3. Pantheism
4. Dualism
5. Polytheism

42. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Exodus 20:3
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

43. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Isaiah 44:8
8 “Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I
not proclaim this and foretell it long ago?
You are my witnesses. Is there any God
besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I
know not one.”

44. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
1. Atheism
2. Agnostics
3. Pantheism
4. Dualism
5. Polytheism
6. Monotheism

45. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Poem
In the words of the French scientist Blasé
Pascal:
“If we assume that there is no God, and in
the end it proves that we were right--
what have we gained by that?

46. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Nothing essentially, we will still die.
If we assume that there is no God, and in
the end it proves that we were wrong, what
have we lost?
Everything!

47. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
If we assume that there is a God, and in the
end it proves that we were wrong--what
have we lost by that?
Essentially nothing!

48. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
But, if we assume that there is a God, and in
the end it proves that we were right--what
have we gained by that?
Everything!”

49. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
a. We can know God through innate
knowledge.

50. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Romans 1:19-20
19 since what may be known about God is plain
to them, because God has made it plain to
them. 20 For since the creation of the world
God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power
and divine nature—have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been made,
so that people are without excuse.

51. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
b. We can know God through acquired
knowledge.

52. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
John 17:3
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom you have sent.

53. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1 John 5:20
20 We know also that the Son of God has
come and has given us understanding, so
that we may know him who is true. And we
are in him who is true by being in his Son
Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal
life.

54. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
c. Our knowledge of God is imperfect and
incomplete.

55. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
2. God is Self-Existent

56. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Exodus 3:14
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is
what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am
has sent me to you.’”

57. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
Exodus 6:3
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to
Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the
Lord I did not make myself fully known to
them.

58. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
2. God is Self-Existent
3. God is spirit

59. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
John 1:18
18 No one has ever seen God, but the one
and only Son, who is himself God and is in
closest relationship with the Father, has
made him known.

60. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1 Timothy 1:17
17 Now to the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only God, be honor and glory
for ever and ever. Amen

61. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
1 Timothy 6:15-16
15 which God will bring about in his own
time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the
King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone
is immortal and who lives in unapproachable
light, whom no one has seen or can see. To
him be honor and might forever. Amen.

62. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
1. God is Incomprehensible yet Knowable
2. God is Self-Existent
3. God is spirit
4. God is personal

63. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
5. God is transcendent
6. God is immanent
7. God is Infinite

64. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
7. God is Infinite
a. God is not limited by time--He is eternal
b. God is not limited by space--He is
omnipresent
c. God is not limited by knowledge--He is
omniscient
d. God is not limited by power--He is
omnipotent

65. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
7. God is Infinite
e. God is not limited by imperfection--He is
perfect

66. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT DOCTRINE
I. The Various Views of God.
II. The Nature of God.
5. God is transcendent
6. God is immanent
7. God is Infinite
8. God is Constant (Immutable)