Full Question
Does it matter if some believe error, so long as they do not publicly teach it?
Answer
1885 pg. 304. “I cannot agree with those who say we should only separate from those who believe it (which I take is practically the same thing as ‘refusing to repudiate’). The basis of all fellowship is identity of belief— not identity of teaching— though the later would follow the form er.”
1886 pg. 166. “The Teaching of false doctrine is considered by some to be the only safe ground for withdrawal from fellowship. This is an unsound principle unity of mind (I Cor. 1-10) is dependent on belief, not on public teaching. It is not a question as to whether a brother promulgates error, but as to whether he embraces it.
1886 pg. 462. “To have remained silent upon the subject would have been doing evil that good might come, or at the least that no more evil would come.”
“The Valley of the Shadow”