Let's look at this in a practical way. Go and sin no more. When the Puritans set out to establish a new nation, a city set on a hill, men and women alike sailed off to live their faith and to take dominion in a new world. Some of these women no doubt had harsh parents, were not given the same opportunities as their husbands and brothers, and experienced great hardship. Imagine their starvation, or giving birth on the sea or in the wilderness, or holding dying children in their arms.
Journals show that the latter case is true.
The doctrine that shapes our individual Christian walk. The doctrine that defines who we are as a church. Yes, there is division in the church. These are hard questions. Looking back since Mount Sinai, it ought to leave us with a healthy fear of God's correction when the idolatry of our ways supersedes His own.