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Originally Posted by RachelRose
Great study.
I have always had UPCI preachers just brush off my questions about the gap by saying; "sure Miss, there always was Jesus Name people, we just never saw them."
Dang, so during the Dark Ages when the catholic church was shredding people for owning even one Bible verse the good guys were just hiding out? It seems wrong.
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Well, there are different personality types. Some are hardwired to judge believe whatever you tell them. Others are not. It's just the way it is. EB and many others are hardwired to find it easy to believe whatever you tell them without any need of verification. They base their conclusions on the source. If they trust the source, they embrace it. If they don't... it can't possibly be true no matter who is demonstrating it or what evidence lays before them. It's dogma. It requires little thought. But at the same time, they provide some of the deepest contemplation of those things that they do embrace. Because, it's the only thing they know.
For example, EB's personality type can't even entertain the possibility of the existence of alien beings. lol He's been taught that the Scripture would have mentioned them, and since it doesn't (that his teachers were aware of), it is
impossible for them to exist... in his mind.
Of course, the Bible didn't mention Native Americans or the New World either. Those of our personality type sees this and realizes that the doors of possibility remain as open for aliens as we see it was in retrospect for the native inhabitants and existence of the New World. For us, it would be the equivalent of Christopher Columbus coming ashore, only in this scenario, we're the Indians.
Other personality types can't embrace that kind of flexibility. They are essentially frozen in time, interpretation, and opinion.
And so, all one had to do is tell EB and those who think like him that there were always Jesus name people, and because they were trusted sources, and Scripture offered no contradiction, he can embrace it without question.
I will admit. It would sure be easier to be able to think like that. lol
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