Don't worry about what the Bible says, all that matters is what you want to believe. Don't worry about the tradition of the past 2,000 years of Church practice. If you want to believe it, we want you to believe it. If you want it, we'll bless it. Yet, throughout the history of United Methodism, matters of faith have never been left solely to the subjective whims and caprice of individuals.
Scripture is our primary source and criterion for Christian doctrine.
Scripture, in fact, has primacy in theological reflection. They claim to have a special, secret knowledge of the will of God that the rest of us feeble, unenlightened, unwashed, misguided souls can never have if we insist upon sticking to the plain meaning of Holy Scripture. They exalt reason over scripture, citing alleged scientific evidence which sounds rather reminiscent of the alleged scientific evidence developed by The Tobacco Institute that cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer or heart disease. They and those others who believe that God is continuing to reveal truths not contained in or inconsistent with the truth revealed in the Bible have exchanged their authority as ministers of The United Methodist Church for the false robes of priests and priestesses of gnosticism. Gnosticism was heresy in the history of the Early Church.