#Doctrine (below-hyperlinked to BibleHub's "Interlinear" page for Chapter One, Verse Three of the First Letter to Timothy) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Doctrine” #Doctrinal #Doctrinaire #Doctrines# is built on ancient words that mean "a Doctor" + the (Feminine) |Abstract-Noun-forming |Suffix -ine (i.e. Body of Principles & Dogma etc. Taught by a Master or Instructor).
The Greek there is "διδάσκαλος (didaskalos)," meaning Instructor, Teacher.
The idea of 'false doctrines' (it's odd that the phrase comes into my Blble-memory more often than 'true doctines') tells us that it's not "what The Bible says" that protects your mind, so much as 'the knowledge you build from your study of The Bible's assembled records.'
This particular Verse (the King James Version translation, of the many used at the 'Interlinear'-page) reads:
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
The Greek used there is hetero-didaskalos. And–before some
Millennial interjects, "heh-heh-heh does that mean The Bible is against
'straightness'?"–remember that 'hetero-' doesn't refer to sexuality
at all in this context.
And–as I should probably say in all my 'word-by-word'-studies–some
of the hyperlinked-words are actually words added by the translators ('helping verbs,
articles, prepositions, etc.) to fit 'the original words' into their then-current way-of-
speaking.
Millennial interjects, "heh-heh-heh does that mean The Bible is against
'straightness'?"–remember that 'hetero-' doesn't refer to sexuality
at all in this context.
And–as I should probably say in all my 'word-by-word'-studies–some
of the hyperlinked-words are actually words added by the translators ('helping verbs,
articles, prepositions, etc.) to fit 'the original words' into their then-current way-of-
speaking.
So yes, take 'what your trusted elders tell you' as "truth that they've tested & proven"; but ... this is why Scientific Journals often include 'the details of the experiment' rather than just 'the principles learned from it' (like when The Bible tells you 'a whole story' before it tells you 'the things you're supposed to learn from it')—so you can judge whether conditions have changed enough to negate the principle with which you (like your elders, like their own elders & the elders before them) were #indoctrinated.
I guess I'm #reindoctrinating you here— #indoctrinating you with The Doctrine of New Contexts, yeah?
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