Have you ever been presented with a concept that is completely different than how you've always known something to be, and regardless of the facts before you, you choose to ignore it? In fact, you won't even double check and research for yourself because you don't want to know anything different?
We do that often in our spiritual journeys. Our salvation is so precious but also quite manipulated. We are taught one thing, come into greater truth and have two choices: To accept the truth and change yourself to live to the standards of truth or to continue to stay where you are living a half truth because the truth is too complicated and difficult to wrap your mind around. I say this all the time, "'I didn't know' won't work at the gates. You have to know things for yourself, study for yourself because what momma, grandma, daddy or grandpa said won't get you into heaven."
Hosea 4:6 says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Are you willing to hold on to tradition, comfort zones and fear at the cost of your eternal life?
Think about it...
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