The Debate Continues

Not necessarily toward you. Church members certainly have a right to discuss doctrine.

It's just that if one does not agree with a church doctrine, vote with your feet. There is another church down the road that would love to have a new member.

 

Agreed, Dennis. However, I'm still confused. I suppose I should have explicitly asked if someone could explain what seems to me to be a contradiction in terms. I am certainly a layperson when it comes to theology, and there are many learned folks in this forum! I did not say I didn't agree with church doctrine -- rather, that I don't understand this part of it. The two positions seem incompatible to me.

BTW, I did "vote with my feet," years ago. I was raised in the Methodist Church, but now am non-denominational. Even though I'm not in the church anymore, however, doesn't mean I don't have a right to question something I don't understand. How else do we learn? I don't see how doing so could associate my posting with the idea of bigotry.