Someone who's words are rejected will often fault the hearer for refusing good words, not realizing the words are not good, and the hearer understand that.
It becomes a matter of emotions and personalities instead of what is the Scriptural truth, with someone feeling like they have to defend their turf.
So is it because I won't hear sound doctrine? Or is it because I already know sound doctrine?
Can we dialog with each other? Or will we be reactionary, or just non-responsive? I think we see plenty of examples of each on this forum.
This is just saying, If someone says something good, people will just reject it. But I don't see that at all. I see a whole range of experience, some receive, others don't, some have valid reservations, and some make excuses.
How a person responds during doctrinal disagreements tells me so much about that person. Someone who will follow the disagreement through to the end, I love to see that. Too many times, it turns into fallacy after fallacy, just becoming more and more base, with more of those fallacies the ad hominem kind. A "Christian" turns to trashing their doctrinal opponent.
It's all boiled down simply, "You just don't get it!"
That should never be the conclusion of brothers and sisters in the Lord.
Much love!