In the world of modern evangelicalism, it is allowable to advocate the most unconventional, unbiblical doctrines - as long as you afford everyone else the same privilege. About the only thing that is taboo nowadays is the intolerance of those who dare to point out others’ errors. Anyone today who is bold enough to suggest that someone else’s ideas or doctrines are unsound or unbiblical is dismissed at once as contentious, divisive, unloving, or unchristian. It is all right to espouse any view you wish, but it is not all right to criticize another person’s views - no matter how patently unbiblical those views may be. When tolerance is valued over truth, the cause of truth always suffers.
John MacArthur, Reckless Faith: When the Church Loses Its Will to Discern, p. 51
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