No man within that denomination has any intellectual or moral right to efface those marks in the name of his personal liberty - to demand of that denomination that it shall wipe out its constitutional principles, which are to it basic, to further progress, and instrumental to the great end of popular instruction. Creeds are a covenant of fellowship voluntarily subscribed to, and covenant fidelity closes their contents against all destructive criticism within the fellowship. For purposes of self-protection, for the sake of internal peace and undivided cooperation, each denomination exacts of all its officers a solemn oath that they will in no point contravene that confessional bond of fellowship. The oath is a pledge of faith to one another. In entering into the doctrinal agreement, each member has the right to demand of every one of his associates a pledge of fidelity. . . .
Denominational infidelity is perjury.
Thus, the issue is not one of the expression of the mind of the individual, but of the mind of the Church. In no case should the principle of Semper Reformanda be conceived of as a license for every man to do that which is right in his own eyes. Semper Reformanda is the work of the whole Church, not of the individual. Otherwise, it is confusion. PSI , point 5, p.