BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION (2): The Doctrine of Christ

One passage cited by some as “proof” that we must have specific “authority” for everything we do in the service of Christ is 2 John 7. The pertinent passage has a variant reading in the Greek texts. As follows:

Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. [NIV]

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. [KJV]