.... Guys, please allow me to rant for a moment. On and off since Tuesday night I have felt a bit of anger. I just ... find it appalling that someone ever thinks they have the right to judge someone else as a false believer in any way, just for having a different interpretation of a Biblical subject that is clearly not mentioned in the Bible as being a Christ-salvational issue. It's such a problem among believers that even this forum site has a rule against believers calling each other false. And yet, right there to my face Elizabeth had the nerve to call me a Christ rejector just because I didn't agree with her on a subject she challenged me on out of the blue (when I was the one who actually bothered to respond to her arguments with Biblical backup instead of just insisting over and over that my view is correct and she's better believe it or else). And then she straight up tells me that I reject Christ.
I do not hate Elizabeth, nor do I think I even dislike her, but I will not tolerate being called that by her. One would think that she could show a little more grace to others.
... It's obvious that some dogmatic (to the exclusion of the very idea we Protestants have adhered to since the Reformation: Sola Scriptura) and fear-based preacher(s) got a hold of her, and she took those ideas and parroted them into me. I have never been one to say that going to church is a bad thing and they are all full of lies like some extremists think, but nevertheless you have to think and study for yourself along with listening to sermons in church. Not every church is perfect (and that's a fact we'd all better learn to get used to; nobody has it all right like Jesus did).