Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - Lee Brainard
The world is full of opinions. Every man has one. If a man doesn’t have an opinion, he is either unconscious or dead. But the vast majority of these opinions — regardless of the topic at hand — are worthless. Why? Because opinions have no more value than their correspondence with facts and reality.
But why is the human race so opinionated? Why do we so readily embrace and defend unreasonable opinions? How can we, for instance, defend several opinions on every vital religious question — opinions so divergent that some of them must be wrong? Because man is “fearfully and wonderfully made.” We are wired in such a way that we can be fearfully wrong and wonderfully right. We can be wrong when the truth is shining in our face and it takes concerted effort to hide from it. We can be right when everyone around us is wrong and truth can only be found by swimming against the current.
So how do we ensure that our opinions are wonderfully right rather than fearfully wrong? It all comes down to our relationship to the Bible. Is it a source or the source? We will go fearfully wrong if we let things like tradition, popularity, convenience, or pride dictate to us what we ought to believe. We will go wonderfully right if we let God himself dictate to us what we ought to believe.
~Lee Brainard, October 11, 2014