[OBW]

One more thing to consider. There has been some study of people who came to understand certain verses in certain ways because all they had was the one verse (or even just part of it). They have made assumptions about words and meaning and come to a particular conclusion. Then, after having thought that to be true for some length of time, they are shown how their context-less conclusions were wrong. Even after careful study and even agreeing with the findings, more than 50% tend to retain their errant understanding despite irrefutable evidence it is wrong.

It can even work in science. Many years ago we briefly discussed a view of light coming to us from the sun. When I was in the 6th or 7th grade, a science teacher said that when you look at the sun, it is actually some number of degrees further to the west because it takes a few minutes (6 or 8, I can't remember at the moment) for the light to reach earth. (now don't start bringing the movement of our solar system through space because that brings in possible factors that we cannot deal with, though they may also disappear in the final analysis.)

The problem with that view is that it presumes that the sun is rotating around the earth. But if the sun is effectively at a fixed point in space and the appearance of movement is due strictly to the rotation of the earth, then the light that reaches your eye at any point in time is traceable back down a straight line to where the sun has always been. The light might have been pointed at a different point on the planet when it left the sun, but it hit you/me after the minutes it took to get there. Down a straight line back to the sun where it still is.

You have no idea how many other people have heard that and how hard it is to admit that it is incorrect since they thought it was true for so long.

The point is that you are going to find yourself needing to presume that even what you still think is true could be wrong or you will never be open to reanalysis and learning. If I didn't I would still be in the LC.