We. In the course of time train ourselves to think in particular patterns and mannerisms.
We believe things because we must...our friends. Our jobs. Our whole lives are built around our personal logic systems.
And we see these things as always being true. Nevermind the facts....we do not change. Why can't people see things the way we do? Especially when it's plainly obvious.
This is of course cognitive bias or dissonance. Where even if not congruent we perceive things as congruent regardless.
Such is the case of Segregation and Slavery. Despite the unloving, unkind, and ungracious nature of these things you had pastors of various churches preaching in favor of these social institutions. But these pastors believed them wholeheartedly using scriptures to back up their positions.
Today these things are recognized for the evil that they are. However, there might be some instances of these biases and dissonance still in existence.
CIP:
There exists a gentleman in a small group bible study that was once Catholic but has since become *gasp" a Protestant Southern Baptist. Now I love this guy like a brother. He is great. However, that Catholic training in him is still with him today.
Like in the Old Testament, Moses regularly says that there are 12 tribes of Israel. Joshua repeats this "fallacy". Because there's truly 13 tribes. (No tribe of Joseph and Ephraim and Manassah were adopted by Jacob) And this realization catches him flat-footed when pointed out. The same thought process behind 6-day creation account, transubstantiation...still haunts him today.
We believe things because we must...our friends. Our jobs. Our whole lives are built around our personal logic systems.
And we see these things as always being true. Nevermind the facts....we do not change. Why can't people see things the way we do? Especially when it's plainly obvious.
This is of course cognitive bias or dissonance. Where even if not congruent we perceive things as congruent regardless.
Such is the case of Segregation and Slavery. Despite the unloving, unkind, and ungracious nature of these things you had pastors of various churches preaching in favor of these social institutions. But these pastors believed them wholeheartedly using scriptures to back up their positions.
Today these things are recognized for the evil that they are. However, there might be some instances of these biases and dissonance still in existence.
CIP:
There exists a gentleman in a small group bible study that was once Catholic but has since become *gasp" a Protestant Southern Baptist. Now I love this guy like a brother. He is great. However, that Catholic training in him is still with him today.
Like in the Old Testament, Moses regularly says that there are 12 tribes of Israel. Joshua repeats this "fallacy". Because there's truly 13 tribes. (No tribe of Joseph and Ephraim and Manassah were adopted by Jacob) And this realization catches him flat-footed when pointed out. The same thought process behind 6-day creation account, transubstantiation...still haunts him today.
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