Why truth don’t change your mind or set you free

2017 Oct 15th Streaming

We have been sharing with you these past few fellowships about our body and soul outer identity, what we have called the “box-suitcase” identity. We have also talked to you about our “spirit-soul”, our inner man true-identity. We have also discussed, how the IOU of Christ reveals the real person we were birthed by God to be and live spiritually. Our problem with living who we are as another person in Christ is hindered heavily by our box identities and suitcase (soul) thinking (things we’ve stuffed and stored for decades). Several months ago, I read an article from a study done in 1975 at Stanford University and other researchers.
“And here our dependence on other minds reinforces the problem. If your position on, say, (any subject) is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless. When I talk to Tom and he decides he agrees with me, his opinion is also baseless, but now that the three of us concur we feel that much more smug about our views. If we all now dismiss as unconvincing any information that contradicts our opinion, you get, well, organizational theology, institutional doctrine and denominational or non-denominational belief systems.”
Can you believe that, some or our beliefs may be baseless spiritually. “Our information comes directly from our pastor and he’s been preaching for many years. Plus he knows the Bible better than anybody I know. Ask anyone in our church and they’ll you the same thing. After all the Bible says “there’s nothing new under the sun”. We already have everything we need to know right here and now! So, there’s nothing you can say that will change my mind. I know what I believe and why I believe it.” Do you know someone like that? Have you heard things like or similar to that? Then you may know why the truth or facts cannot change someone’s mind or set them free to live as a new creation. Hey, maybe that sounds like you!?!? Let’s talk about it…