What is this "every wind of doctrine" in reference to in Ephesians 4:14???

Ephesians 4:14 ESV so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

What would the "every wind of doctrine" consist of?

In other words, do we find this happening even within our ranks, both here at Maritime, and in our churches???

One man's person's "theology" is another person's "every wind of doctrine."

Can you give me an example of that???

How much time do you have???
Just for starters, Nadi vs. dedication (and apparently everyone else) regarding the false and completely unsupportable "wind of doctrine" called the Investigative Judgement.

How many do you want? Every time two people disagree on doctrinal issues each thinks the other has a "wind of doctrine."

The REAL question is "Who has authority to interpret Scripture?" In other words: WHO says THIS is true, and THIS is false.?

This is a widespread problem, including at Maritime. If everyone posts whatever they wish, and there is no normative reference, then the discussion is ultimately meaningless.

The Bible and Spirit of Prophecy both talk about this sort of thing a lot. Here's a prominent SOP quote on the subject:

Sooo...What shall we use as a "normative reference" and who gets to decide that?

Extremely interesting question.

The quick answer of course is, the Bible. A prayerful, Spirit led, earnest study of the God's Word! It is the Word of Truth!

BUT does it really answer the question as every "wind of doctrine" tends to claim it's from the Bible?

Prophetic history and revelation does tell us what the popular answer will be in the future.

THE HISTORY AND PROPHECIED SOLUTION

For over 1000 years the Roman Catholic church, with the papacy at the head, claimed the role of being the normative reference and definer of Christian doctrine in all parts of the world where Christianity was the religion of the people.

Then 500 years ago Martin Luther cast off the authority of the Pope, and no longer acknowledged him as head of the Christian Church. Protestantism arose, protesting against the authority of their former head, and also against the doctrines and traditions of that Roman Catholic Church, declaring they would stand on SOLA SCRIPTURE. People were freed to worship God as they found truth in scripture.

BUT CONFUSION resulted, and many believe some confusion was intentionally generated to destroy the truths the protestants had found.

Christianity fragmented in many division, so now there's the plan to implement the "solution" which has been in progress for some years already. The unifying of the churches with ultimately the papacy being restored to his supposedly "rightful place" at the head of the church.

As one pope, Boniface VIII, wrote in his "Unam Sanctam " (and which is held up as an answer to the question you asked on websites)


The goal is to restore the papacy as the "head" and definer of truth.
Do I agree with that "solution"?
NO! NO!
It will be the end of religious freedom, and then we will see what REAL persecution means.

The real answer as to where we find truth, is still THE BIBLE.

Yet, notice in the paragraph above the misuse of a simple Bible reference, when the disciples had two swords with them in the garden of Gethsemane. Yes, Peter used a sword that night, but it was NOT a good thing, yet the popes uses this story to claim the Lord gave them the right to use force (swords) to keep society "Christian" according to their definition.

The Bible is the real "sword" of the spirit. The truth is in scripture.
But it must be sought with a prayerful, Spirit led, earnest study of God's Word!

A church is a group of believers who have come to the same conclusion from their Bible study as to what is true doctrine. A church will usually list the beliefs that are central to their church and why they believe them, and yes it does become a "normative reference".

It doesn't matter what the Bible says. It matters what YOU THINK the Bible says.

And everyone has to answer to God, whether they have sought truth with hearts open to His guiding, earnestly studying God's Word seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Who is promised to lead us to truth, or whether we simply followed the more popular generic versions that are put forth to bring ecumenical unity.

Here is an interesting video message, about an hour in length, at Spring Council in April of this year by Mark Finley that we watched and listened to attentively in church this morning regarding "every wind of doctrine" that I challenge everybody to view: