\u201cIt takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one\u2019s limitations\u2014scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 -Nassim Taleb<\/p>\n\n\n
What some blame on mother nature or evolution, seems reasonably explained as the result of fallen human nature as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Nearly indetectable from the inside, the human ability to fool oneself is nearly unlimited in its scope.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
This makes for another prime argument in favor of cultivating a true humility in the face of holy Scripture. A “beginner’s mindset” that has no problem with admitting, “I may well be wrong.”<\/p>\n\n\n
I suppose one of the reasons Calvinism fascinates me is that its adherents firmly hold the belief that the unregenerate are incapable of understanding any <\/b><\/i>spiritual truth from Scripture but they – the elect – see all with perfect clarity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
They regularly give the impression of believing themselves to be inerrant in their interpretation of God’s word.<\/p>\n\n\n
And, like the Pharisees before them, they perpetually miss the big picture and inadvertently paint God as a complete monster.<\/p>\n\n\n
It is a profound tragicomedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one\u2019s limitations\u2014scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 -Nassim Taleb What some blame on mother nature or evolution, seems reasonably explained as the result of fallen human nature as well.\u00a0 Nearly indetectable from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,88,18,89,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-mindset","category-being-wrong","category-calvinism","category-depravity","category-humility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}