“To me, considering it safek sakanah when he believes it wholeheartedly doesn’t sit right. Although I am unsure, like I explained in the opening post to this thread.”
It seems obvious to me that if you are not allowed to mekabel something, then you can’t act on that “kabala”. And I have been trying to figure out why you are having a hard time accepting that. It occurred to me that the issue might be as follows:
Perhaps you are looking at it as though he was already mekabel it. But it occurred to me that that is not really the case. The fact is that he is constantly being remekabel it every moment. He was remekabel it immediately after he viewed the event and interpreted it based on his “kabala”.
After it occurred to me to look at it this way, I saw in the Chofetz Chaim that he writes that as part of the teshuva one must do for being mekabel l”h is to stop believing it (klal 6), which is similar to what I wrote. Even if it’s slightly different, the ramifications are the same.
The point is that you could have and should have stopped believing it at the moment you saw what you saw, and then what you had seen would have been different.
“I don’t think extrapolating from there to my ‘Kovod haTorah’ scenario is that difficult.”
Is Kavod HaTorah in the same category as saving someone’s life and would the same rules apply? You are making assumptions about what is allowed in the case of saving someone’s life and then assuming the same thing applies to “kavod HaTorah”. I’m not saying you are wrong; I just don’t see a proof.