Indeed,

The goal of studying the Scriptures isn't just to accumulate more cold knowledge of mere fact, but to become like Him. The Law is an elucidation of the demands of love. It is a picture of what love looks like; what I ought to look like; what Jesus looks like.

Also, by showing us the depth of what Jesus accomplished for us in His substitutionary sinless life, atoning death, and resurrection, we are made more grateful and gratefulness should make us soft hearted toward others.

When a person or teaching makes light of Christ, or impugns the sovereignty, love, and grace of God by adding new requirements to salvation, by suggesting that Christ's work was "not enough - we must add our own to it," or by subscribing to a completely different Jesus - not the sinless, eternal Son of God but a "lesser god" or "no more the son of God than you or I," it's okay to get one's dander up. When His precious work and word is cheapened by those who either don't understand or who think they can use His name and legacy for personal gain or even those who hate Him, then those of us who love Him and His word are supposed to contend for the truth (Jude 3). Not just to be argumentative nor to defend our selves or our own doctrinal position, but to oppose "those who turn the grace of God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord (Jude 4)."

That's not "cold, dead, doctrinaire theology." It's passion for God. It comes from hearts that have been softened by His love - and from transformed minds hardened against deception by the discipline of study.