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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump."
Small faults grow into big faults. To tolerate a trifling error inevitably
leads to crass heresy. The doctrine of the Bible is not ours to take or to
allow liberties with. We have no right to change even a tittle of it. When
it comes to life we are ready to do, to suffer, to forgive anything our
opponents demand as long as faith and doctrine remain pure and
uncorrupt. The Apostle James says, "For whosoever shall keep the whole
law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." This passage supports
us over against our critics who claim that we disregard all charity to the
great injury of the churches. We protest we desire nothing more than
peace with all men. If they would only permit us to keep our doctrine of
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