Chad and Rusmeister, your replies really made me think.
I think that...there are two opposite errors that we can make. On one hand, we can (very easily) focus on dogma so much that we think we are following God just because we agree with it and defend it. For it is much harder to follow God's commands, and easy to talk about Him.
The other error is when we recognize the possible danger of dogma, but instead of realizing that everything good could be corrupted, we start disliking it and seeing it as dangerous in itself. I imagine that this might be a reactionary error - in reaction to the former one.
I do believe that the most important thing is following God and loving Him and others. It seems to me that the latter type of people are maybe closer to God than the former type. God doesn't just save the intellectuals
We learn more about God by being with Him than by reading theology books, but of course as Chad said our minds are also redeemeable. There needs to be a balance.
Barbara, amen to that! :)
Jesus does redeem the whole person, mind included, but the only way to be redeemed is to trust and obey Him.