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Originally Posted by Lost Sheep
I dislike the idea of being force fed someone else's "opinion" of the Bible.
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This point's worth pursuing. Pro: receiving someone else's opinion as true brings about harmony, and a sense of constancy, while arguing over opinions leads to dis-harmony and dissolution.
Receiving someone else's opinion at face value allows one to relax and not worry about things. Just do what the Maximum Brother says and everything will be fine.
Con: What if the Max Bro is wrong? What then? What happens to one's conscience when being forced to agree with something that doesn't seem right? It's one thing, when you're a child of eight, and the adults want something stupid, or seemingly so. The child has to go along. But the assumption is that the child will grow, and learn, and evolve sophistication over time. The child will then be able to execute problems that stymied their parents.
The danger of blindly accepting someone else's opinion is that one's kept in a stage of perpetual infancy, unable to solve any problems that Max Bro hasn't provided the solution for.
Secondly, accepting one person's opinion as the basis of unity is a false unity. Suppose this website only allowed my opinion of the trinity, or of the rapture/millennial kingdom/judgment? Maybe for a while, I'd be happy. Maybe I could convince a few to stick around and say, Amen, everytime I posted something. Then I could write, "Here, we are one!" But it wouldn't be much of a conversation, would it? It would be a monologue. Is that really the society that I want to live in?