The less information and experience a person has, the more their beliefs will appear right to them. There's nothing to size it up against or try their beliefs. It's right because it works in a very small thing. Nothing else is there to make it intricate or wrong.

Let me paint a picture of this. If the world was a square house with a 10 foot yard around its parameter, one window and one door to each side of the house, one tree to the north, one tree to the south, one tree to the east, and one tree to the west, all equally placed, and a flat blue sky and a dull earth, this would be all that could comprise the belief. With so little to the world, hardly anything could divide people. Some may say the north tree was their religion because they said it was bigger, but others were saying the same thing about the south and east and west trees. But nothing would become ardent because everything was so evident, and people would just eventually fall into robotism because everything was so much alike and there was nothing to be different in.

Also everyone would see nearly all of the big picture because there was so little to it. If there was only 2 or 3 big things and a half dozen smaller things, instead of ages and nations and races and travel and Internet and planets, galaxies, stars, wind, fire, rain, governments, religions, universes, music, agriculture, language, art, books, film, animals, mountains, plains, wilderness, forest, and world without end, that even still to this day is shrinking our pictures and making it more challenging to reconcile all that is in the world, then we would be right in so little instead of putting so much claim in so little of the wholeness and abundance God has put in the world.

Brent

In a nutshell, that is the value of education.  It helps to destroy narrow-mindedness.  Not all of what a person learns is good, but it is all information that opens the windows on reality.

Isn't this how we are able to put yourself in another's shoes... by learning about empathy is all about... Learning how to think in another angle? trying to get out of the "rutted" comforts and narrow minded outlook...
And most of all... looking at God in the many, many ways He can be and is? No limitations, my friends, on Him... or the many promises that lay in wait to those who will CLAIM them???

"or the many promises that lay in wait to those who will CLAIM them???"

But higheagle, the Holdemans have been accused of claiming the greatest spot in the world. So I guess we can't accuse them of not claiming.

But in religion today, if you claim more than what those know around you have, you're accused of all sorts of things. It's like there's no recognition you could have had more experience and been laboring harder and trying more things.

This claiming business of not having any experience with it or not living it, is the problem.

Brent