We heartily welcome you the Berean Bible Students' web site. Please check out our site. We have many articles, Real Audio Sermons and much more. Check out our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about us. There is yet another, very significant, side to the matter.
Many persons seek only a negative freedom.
They seek to be from something, to be free from feeling compelled to profess belief in certain teachings, to perform certain activities or conform to certain policies, all imposed by ecclesiastical authority. Of itself that kind of freedom may be a proper goal, desirable, bringing release from oppressive restraints and from domination of mind and heart by men in a way which is clearly unchristian. But even so by itself this release does not bring Christian freedom. Rather than by the mere step of leaving a religious system viewed as false, it is by what we do with our lives after separating from that system that we demonstrate whether true freedom has actually been gained.