One More Verse?

Have you ever stopped to think how one additional verse in the Bible would have clarified so many of the differences between Christians? All God would have had to do to end hundreds of years of disagreements among millions of believers was add one verse that said: "Christian baptism is/is not for infants" or "believers will/will not live through the final tribulation." One verse would have been enough to end all debate.

Why didn't he? My former colleague David Powlison hit the nail squarely on the head when he suggested that part of God's purpose is to teach us that love must transcend our disagreements. Only by living peacefully with people whom we disagree with can some facets of real love be seen. Only then are those facets necessary.

--William P. Smith, Loving Well (Even If You Haven't Been) (Greensboro, NC: New Growth, 2012), 221.