The Bible has a spine. Here's what that tells us

We've all heard the saying "it's not a Gospel issue", or "it's not a salvation issue". If ever an example could be given for the phrase "cop out", this would be it. A unique and truly amazing thing about Christianity is that you don't need to fully understand much to be saved. You only need to know that you have sinned against God, meriting eternal wrath, and that Jesus Christ is Lord, who died for those sins, as well as rose from the dead. If you believe and confess that, you're saved from eternal punishment in Hell, instead inheriting eternal life in Heaven.

But if God only wanted us to know such a small paragraph, the Bible wouldn't have needed to be 66 books long. The Bible is filled with lots of important information. Information which, if denied, may not necessarily result in eternal condemnation.

However, the Bible makes it quite clear, both in black letters and in red, that it is all important. If you take a single word away from it, you're in trouble, and if you add a single word to it, you're in trouble. So does it really matter that being wrong in a specific area won't lead you to Hell? Would it not perhaps be better, both for yourself and for anyone you influence, if you repent of your errors? And if you will defend your errors, is it not perhaps logical to suggest that maybe you have a bigger problem than just the error?

As a Christian, I fully believe the word of God is true and accurate in every area on which it touches, whether it pertains to salvation or not. There is no excuse for bad doctrine except unintentional ignorance. Once unintentional ignorance has been eliminated, you move from error to sin. There should never be a scenario in which you are ok with that.