They say that: we only use 10% of our brain, squiggles in a rock prove there was once life on Mars, you can earn $15,000 in your spare time, marijuana leads to LSD, the corner office is positional power, the elderly should get their flu shots early Prozac leads to depression, and that there’s a gene for homosexuality. I have to ask this question though. Who are THEY anyway?
The “they” are those people whom we know not, but who’s advice it is that we follow. Sometimes they are scientists, sometimes psychologists, and sometimes no-name experts that may or may not be. Who are you following? Could it be a religious teacher, pastor, mother, father, or all of the above and more? When you come right down to it, most are just following “traditions” that came from God knows where!
Jesus confronted the religious traditions numerous times in Matthew 5, Jesus uses the phrase (KJV), “You’ve heard is SAID“. That was a tip off that whatever someone had once said, wasn’t really true. And Jesus was about ready to set the record straight. In one of those “you’ve heard it said” statements Jesus was referring back to the topic of adultery. Jesus took it a lot further. Instead of saying don’t do it, He said don’t even look at a second of porn on the computer (modern day version).
Here’s the simple question. What is it that YOU “have heard said” that isn’t true?
I know none of us want to admit to that, but I also know that we ALL are guilty to some degree of buying into religious traditions that someone said and we’re going on faith (not the real kind of faith) that the “sayer” was true and accurately representing God.
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