Cheryl

Under Much Grace,

You said:

In June, I introduced the problems of patriarchy on a few internet forums and found that most people accused me of gossip and of personal criticism rather than doctrinal or praxy problems among the leadership in the so-called “Biblical Patriarchy” movement. Because I pointed out that a significant portion of these doctrines were not Biblical, I was accused of calling several ministers and para-church organization leaders “bad men.”

The problem I see is when people pull on a person’s “security blanket” i.e. patriarchy, these people come out swinging and they will attack you with all kinds of false accusations and they will call you every name in the book. I have long pondered on why this is. Why would people who claim to know God and know his love, actually try to attack the person instead of what they consider to be false doctrine? I think it is because they do not have an answer to what we say. When someone is very much attached to their security blanket and then you pull on it and they don’t have an answer for what you are saying, they will come out swinging. But in my opinion, real mature believers will reason through the argument without an attack on the person not only because they really love the truth but also because they love their brother or sister in Christ. We are called to be truth lovers and we are called to love the brethren.