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Originally Posted by awareness
... cognitive dissonance... cognitive dissonance... cognitive dissonance... cognitive dissonance
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Originally Posted by ABrotherinFaith
Awareness,
I'm with Igzy on this one. Don't you think that the cognitive dissonance you're fond of pointing out is on our side, has to be on our side, instead of within the text. God is not dissonance. God is peace and not confusion (1 Cor. 14:33). His righteousness, His Justice is higher than ours, just as His love far far exceeds love as we understand it.
In this case I think cognitive dissonance is just fancy speak for misunderstanding God's character.
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Hey bro ABrother, I admit I'm not all that smart (after all I fell for the local church).
But I do realize ya'll would be much happier if I only pointed how the Psalms is the word of Jesus.
And I certainly agree that I'm not smart enough to figure how Jesus in the NT says love your enemies, and says in Psalms 18:37
"I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed."
And how Jesus in the NT says suffer the children to come unto me, and Jesus says in Psalms,
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
I admit that it may be my failing that I find cognitive dissonance upon encountering these seemingly contradictions.
And that I short-circuit to the point of timing out and system shut down.
So I react to and dismiss these contradictions like Lee did. I conclude that something non-Jesus was slipped into the Psalms.
And there. Cognitive Dissonance is gone. My mind is at peace.
And you and others are free to find your own methods or interpretations to resolve any cognitive dissonance you may have, between parts of the Psalms and Jesus in the NT, if any.
Just not thinking about it is another way. But that's my way. Sorry.