AE 356 - doctrine

AE 356
1. Without doctrine no one can understand the Word.
2. Without doctrine from the Word
no one can fight against evils and falsities, and disperse them.
3. Without doctrine from the Word
no one within the church, where the Word is, can become spiritual.
4. Doctrine can be acquired from no other source than from the Word,
and by none except those who are in illustration from the Lord.
(From section 356 [4])
They are in illustration from the Lord who love truths because they are truths;
and because such as these do them,
they are in the Lord and the Lord is in them.
5. All things of doctrine must be confirmed
by the sense of the letter of the Word.