A quote worth considering from poet Walt Whitman:
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
This "scientific spirit" Whitman admired so much is how believers should approach matters of interpretation of Scripture and of doctrine.
Instead, we all too commonly latch onto - unquestioningly - whatever we grew up with or whatever we have heard some charismatic preacher propound for 30 minutes.
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