KBC Desk: Now Is the Time to Act What will you do with the precious knowledge you are learning? We humans dont like to change. Humans dont like to have to admit that ones religion or ones way may have been wrong. Notice this striking description of the human mind in James Harvey Robinsons book The Mind in the Making: We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas...but our self-esteem which is threatened... The little word my is the most important one in human affairs, and properly to reckon with it is the beginning of wisdom. It has the same force whether it is my dinner, my dog, my house or my faith, my country and my God... We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to it. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. What a true description of the human mind! Yet, the very key to Christian conversion is our willingness to repent of our own ways and change our own ideas, customs and beliefs so that they correspond with Gods ways and teachings as revealed in the Bible.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:34:08 +0000
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