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3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
How does the battered wife convince herself that her husband is, at heart, a decent guy? How does the tone-deaf talent-show contestant convince himself that he is the next Elvis?
These are puzzling questions and there are no definitive answers yet.
But Neil Van Leeuwen, a philosopher of Johannesburg, has an interesting theory which he illustrates using the metaphor of “the teaspoon and the mountain”.
On one hand, you have a mountain of evidence that your husband is an abuser or that your singing is bad.
On the other hand, you have a teaspoon of evidence that your husband is a good guy or that you have musical talent.
“What happens in self-deception is that because of the desires within you, you focus all your attention on the teaspoon of evidence and you ignore the mountain,” says Leeuwen.
You have all the evidence that a rational person could need in order to make a correct judgement.
Indeed, if you were using the same evidence to evaluate someone else’s partner or singing, you would come to a sensible conclusion.
But you refuse to attend to evidence that conflicts with your desires.
If Leeuwen’s theory is right, then the severe self-deceiver employs essentially the same strategy as the mild self-deceiver: selective scrunity of the evidence.
An important difference, though, is that at some level, sever self-deceivers know precisely what they are doing.
There is a tension within them because they are uncomfortably aware of the evidence they work so hard to suppress.
- Gary Hayden
In the Hebrew Scriptures there is no word for "spiritual." And Jesus never used the phrase "spiritual life." Because for Jesus and his tradition, all of life is spiritual. So what does that mean?Read it at https://robbell.com/everything-is-spiritual-2006-tour-film/ yea EVERYTHING is spiritual..why do people feel empty? Because there's a vacuum in all our hearts that only God can fill :D God is..everything. He's everywhere, in every moment..at the start of time, at the end of time..in the past, at the present, in the future..He transcends time and space..my God is so cool :D:D:D:D God bless, take care and byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! =D