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I teach and promote right doctrine but only insofar as it is biblical. I encourage my students to think about doctrines for themselves and to test every doctrine by its consistency with Scripture, and insofar as it is not clearly drawn from and supported by Scripture to question or even discard or relegate it to the category of adiaphora ("things indifferent").

The irony is that some of the conservative evangelicals who will raise objections to this have themselves dared at one time or another to question a doctrinal formulation. But too often once they are ensconced in a seat of authority, they tend to suffer from "hardening of the categories," by which I mean a rigidity and narrowness that disallows what they once practiced—honest, open, and scripturally faithful questioning of traditional beliefs and practices.

From How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

by Roger E. Olson

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