Introduction
One of the cornerstones of Dodgy Doctrine is to try to assess and continually re-assess confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a hard task master. You are either confirming something is real or not real. There is no middle ground. If you do think you have a balanced view or middle ground. Consider what Revelation 3:15-16 has to say.
Revelation 3:15-16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Now, you might say that I have taken that verse out of context. Which in some ways is precisely the point. There are two types of confirmation bias and each has sub-categories. The first is where you are doing your own self-assessment. The second is where others push their opinion as Gospel truth. Don’t overlook what just happened. There was a push and a rejection or acceptance of the verse. The push was from someone else’s bias.
If one form or another we can all do this. The problem comes with the intentions on which people are doing things. Which can lead to manipulation, cults, cults of personality, witchcraft, leviathan spirits, Pastors, Prophets, and Teachers of the word. Consider perhaps bygone eras of confirmation bias during the periods of inquisitions.
Inquisition Wiki – The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but convictions of unrepentant heresy were handed over to the secular courts, which generally resulted in execution or life imprisonment.
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
In the coming sections of this chapter, I will be expanding on some of my thoughts. Despite the labels, we put on people and practices.