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换言之，无论是否喜欢，我们都无法避免教义。新约圣经到处充满了教义。因此，拒绝考虑教义，不单是拒绝相信圣经就是神的话，更是侮辱神自己。如果神选择用义、称义、成圣、救赎、代赎、和好、挽回祭这类词语，那麽我们就有责任面对那些词语，并且考虑它们的意义；不这麽做就是不尊重神。⋯⋯「你们说：『我们对教义不感兴趣；我们关心的是生命；』这麽说是无济于事的；如果你的教义错了，你的生命也就错了。』」⋯⋯

In other words, whether we like it or not, we cannot avoid doctrine… the New Testament everywhere is full of doctrine. So to refuse to consider doctrine is not only to refuse to believe in the Bible as the Word of God, it is insulting to God Himself. If God has chosen to use such terms as righteousness, justification, sanctification, redemption, atonement, reconciliation, propitiation, then it is our duty to face those terms and to consider their meaning; it is dishonouring to God not to do so. … ‘It is no use your saying, “We are not interested in doctrine; we are concerned about life"; if your doctrine is wrong, your life will be wrong.’ …

这是一方面的危险，但还有另一种极端的危险，也是同样重要的。那危险是那些对教义非常感兴趣的人所面对的。因此，我要试着清楚描绘这类型的人，像描绘另一种类型的人那样。有些人非常关注教义与神学，但他们的兴趣似乎是纯属超然冷漠的，纯理论、思想的。他们单单以争辩神学为乐；然而，他们在争辩神学时，永远像是为了某种抽象的科学、某种与生命毫不相干、某种与生活实践相去甚远的东西而辩论。

That is the danger on the one hand, but there is also a danger at the other extreme which is equally important, and that is the danger which confronts those who have a very great interest in doctrine. So let me try to paint this type of person as clearly as I have painted the other. There are people who are very concerned about doctrine and theology, but their interest seems to be purely detached, purely theoretical and intellectual. There is nothing they delight in more than arguing about theology; yet they do so the whole time as if they were arguing about some abstract science, something far removed from life, something quite apart from practical living.

我们必须竭力避免一种倾向，就是只为了寻找经文来证明自己特殊的理论和观念，才来读圣经。永远不为教义而教义。永远不要将圣经与生命分开。

… we must strenuously avoid the tendency to come to Scripture merely in search of texts to prove our own particular theories and ideas. Doctrine must never be considered in and of itself. Scripture must never be divorced from life.

我们要持定教义，但必须提防这种可怕的危险，就是与生命分开的纯理论的立场。。

Let us hold on to doctrine, but let us beware of the terrible danger of a mere theoretical position divorced from life.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in Christ: Studies in 1 John (Crossway, 2002), pp. 162-64, 170