One of the biggest errors I see in denominations is the practice of eisegesis....reading something into the text that isn’t there to support a dogma. It leads to a lot of bad theology.
At 5 I wanted to be a man after God’s own heart. At 16 I was debating with theologians. At 19 I was attending pastoral conferences by special invitation. At 24 I was being groomed for seminary.
I never went. I saw too much of this. The longer I live, the less I care about theology.
The Apostles were not theologians. They knew Jesus Christ and the Word of God.
So much of this is based in vanity and hubris, and goes beyond what God has declared.
“I am not very interested in what Man has to say about God; I am much more interested in what God has to say about Man.” - Daniel Lapin (sadly, not spoken by a Christian theologian)
“Theology is theory, not truth: the danger of seeing through a glass darkly.” - YogicCowboy