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Sure it works. Just because a camper can go to the full service camping store that has everything he needs, doesn’t mean he has the experience to get all the right stuff on his first or second shopping trip. That’s what instruction is for. Under any system, yours, mine, or someone else’s, there will be a lot of diversity at the fringes, but people of good will tend to grow into and converge on a shared body of truth as they gain knowledge.

That’s why I keep bringing up Aquinas. Its part of natural law theory. Reason is good. God made reason so we could discover truth, so we could know more about Him. Sin takes reason off course, but then there’s the Holy Spirit to put it back on course. Not out of emotional whimsy, but out of a sincere struggle to know what is true.

Look at everything we DO agree on. Blessed Trinity. Christ as Messiah, God-man, Savior. The Resurrection. That people with faith will also have works. The sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. The sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. The profitability of Scripture. And much much more. It is only in certain select areas we run into trouble. And a lot of that has to do with history, not the Biblical text.

This is why I actually agree, in a reverse sort of way, with something stpio has been saying. I think there will be a convergence among believers as we get closer to the gate. But it won’t support any one particular human institution so much as it will drive us all to the glorified Jesus, who will so transcend our petty quarrels here we will forget them entirely. I look forward to that.

Peace,