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I had never heard of this term. It comes from a Baptist minister. What do you think?
Soul Liberty
The distinctive Baptist doctrine concerning the freedom to make your own decision on what to believe is called "Soul Liberty". Soul liberty is a logical corollary of the Priesthood of the Believer, since individual access to God should empower each believer to discover the truth.
Soul Liberty eliminates the possibility of ecclesiastical control. It gets expressed in Baptist polity: each Baptist church, even if a member of a Convention or Conference, is truly autonomous. No Conference or Convention decisions can ever be binding on a Baptist congregation. Within the congregation, Soul Liberty is expressed in purely democratic congregational government.
The point of Soul Liberty is not "every person for him or herself." It is rather the belief that God's truth and God's will can be found best by those who seek it through exercising the freedom of individual conscience., under the direction of the Holy Spirit and the authority of*
God's word.*
The danger in Soul Liberty is the potential for lack of individual accountability. *Wrongly exercised, Soul Liberty can produce renegade individuals. However, creedalism can and has produced renegade denominations, and that's worse.*