[OBW]

I like this recent line of reasoning. There is so much that is just details. But not the core. And it is fairly clear that many of the details are not entirely important for our daily living if we have managed to get the core down correctly.

In other words, if you truly love God and your neighbor, you are not likely to need a correcting word from someone like Paul. You don't need to have someone provide a dissertation on the flesh v the spirit (parts of Romans).

For example, in the last couple of years someone suggested that it is probably unimportant whether you understand or even have a concept concerning things like substitutionary atonement. Whether you think you understand it, or even know that it exists, it is what it is. What I do or don't think about it is really unimportant unless in erroneous thinking I am teaching people in such a way that they are being directed away from the core of their faith (such as having no care for neighbor — unless they are "good material," whatever that is).

And then we come here to discuss a group whose entire mission is muddling in details while missing the core. A group that has redefined the core as a collection of unique and peculiar details that few agree upon while belittling the true core.

I think that their being exclusive is probably a good thing. I really don't think I want to be easily grouped in with a sect like that.