This is why partisan debate offers no solution. It places consultation or discussion before association. The participants are not conditioned for the encounter. They come together to debate and do not debate to come together. They meet as warring tribes and not as yearning brothers.
Debate is too shallow and superficial.
As men hold hands and walk more deeply into Christ they enter a realm where spiritual affinity welds them together, not upon a basis of knowledge but of faith. No man can lift his brother with a hand clenched with hate. Our hope of recovery from and of halting relapse into division in the future lies in our ability to recapture a proper sense of relative values. All truth is equally true but it is not all equally important. The body of truth is like the physical body.