Imagine a priest who volunteers to be a life guard on weekdays. Suddenly, a little girl is screaming for help not to far from the edge of the pool. The priest extends his arm toward the little girl and says, " I believe that I can save you. ". But being a man who sticks to his beliefs, he stands their like a statue with his arm extended toward the little girl. People begin to scream, " Father, do something, she is going to drown.". But he does not, for he is a man who sticks to his beliefs, and thus does not leave them behind and approach the truth itself instead.
What does this mean?
People are only dependent upon beliefs and disbeliefs if they are located at a distance from the truth, and thus are located within the zone of less than truth. If they stick to their beliefs and disbeliefs, then they stick to being located within the zone of less than truth.
They become happy with their beliefs and disbeliefs and thus less than truth is enough for them. Yet at the same time, they believe that they can see the complete truth by looking at less than truth. In turn they think that if something is believed by a majority, then it is true even though less than truth is less than truth.
Thus if you present the truth to them, it is immediately rejected, for it is not the same as less than truth.
Picture Jesus speaking to a group of men who could see and hear the truth, the completeness. He speaks of the truth concerning himself and beyond. He then says to them, " I tell you the truth yet you believe me not.", " What could be better than that my friends".
And his friends say, " Right on J.C., we did not believe a single words that you said, for we heard the Truth instead.".
If they had believed what he had said, then that means that they did not hear the truth, but instead heard only a portion of it, in combination with blind faith and trust. These are two radically different things altogether.
Then he tells them, " Not all people are as wise as you. ", "Others have chosen to be believers and chose to stick to their beliefs". " Thus my fiend's, they will only accept truth as best as they can see it from a distance via the practice of a belief.".
"And so come the bad news my friends.". "We can not speak our truths directly to them in the hear and now, for they are believers who therefore only accept from a distance.
"But fear not my brothers." " We must therefore simply speak to them in a manner of indirectness. " But how say his friends. " My friends, we will speak to them via, parables. ".
But more education was still in need. Christ must prove his point that believers will spit into the face of truth if it is encountered in the hear and now. He sets up a situation in which he is forced to present truths directly to believers. They spit in his face. they call him a liar. They flog him. They scourge him, and they crucify him, and do so all after seeing him as being the exact opposite of his true self.
His point is made clear.
If you believe, and stick to that belief, then you will not see the truth.
Edited by JesuisSean, : correction.
Edited by JesuisSean, : expand