Facing the Freedom

It is often easier for someone brought up in conservative circles to follow Biblical principles that will paint them as right-wing, hard-nosed, etc, than it is to follow Biblical principles that will paint them as more liberal. Yet it would be just as much a matter of COMPROMISE to abandon Biblical teachings or, in "doubtful things," to violate your conscience, for the sake of being thought more conservative.

Charles Hodge wrote:

"It is often necessary to assert our Christian liberty at the expense of incurring censure, and offending even good men, in order that right principles of duty may be preserved. Our Savior consented to be regarded as a Sabbath-breaker, and even a 'wine bibber and a friend of publicans and sinners'; but wisdom was justified of her children." Hodge, Romans, 429-430