If you felt a crisis of conscious because your faith tradition taught something you felt wasn’t right, would you follow your conscience or your faith tradition?

​One of the benefits of belonging to what is called a “confessional” church is that doctrinal issues are not a my-word-against-someone-else’s affair. No minister is able to use the Bible as a wax nose and present his own unique take on it. The reformed confessions, written hundreds of years ago, and historically received and upheld by the churches of Protestant Christianity, give a commonly received understanding of the teaching of scripture on essential bible teaching. I have the shoulders of many men far wiser and godlier than I, and the discussions, debates, and defenses of centuries of church councils to stand on, and it would be the utmost arrogance for me to think that all of historic Christianity got it wrong but that I am right. The doctrinal errors that arise in the church today have arisen and been dealt with before, and doctrinal innovation is highly suspect, especially my own.