I was in church and talked to an elder who said: ‘it’s that we agree on the essentials…’. I counted, ‘I’m not sure that is enough…’
The reason that I answered that way is that Jesus asked us to believe in Him and our intellectual ideas aren’t really the essence of the life we have in Jesus.
I tell you, people believe in all sorts of things. We have all sorts of ideas. We can tend to, in our idolatry, follow mere men (or women) and prefer that over the Lord.
Let’s look at the scriptures.
Joh 6:29
The work that we are asked to do: believe in the One whom the Father sent. You may believe in Calvin, Ellen White, the Pope, the Church, this cult leader, that cult leader, but really, isn’t the call to believe in the Lord Jesus, and be saved?