As someone in the Church hierarchy (who shall remain nameless) told me some time back:
"We need to find a way to treat you guys [scholars] better on the local level. That's where this scholars vs. authorities business is at its worst."
That's not an exact quote, but its pretty close.
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"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV)
We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
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