Ministerial Ethics, Dropping Out and TV: Did You Forget You Agreed to This?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by rrford

And surely we would agree that 2 differing views of eternal salvation will never find unity? Are you really that naive? If so why not become a universalist in the name of unity? (And yes, I realize that was an extreme comment. )

The Fundamental Doctrine was naive? Perhaps rrford can help me here. But is this why the "conservatives" have always seemed to be against the UPC fellowship? Because they never really agreed with the merger?

How can they do this without blushing? Is it because they had been feigning (faking) the fellowship all along? My brothers were dishonest when they said we were "brethren?"

Sure the Manual has instructions for disaffiliating a church; but is that how you've read the Manual all along- looking for loopholes and ways to get around the principles you signed your name to? And that one was a pretty desperate attempt.

This is why I cannot agree with the label many have put upon themselves: "conservatives." They have always been about changing the Manual, adding resolutions and restrictions. They have consistently sought to undermine the leadership of the UPC (just attend any of their soirees and listen). Destabilizing the foundations of an institution is not "conservative." It's "radical."