How Truth Impacts Perception

Let’s say you have a good friend that you’ve known for about five years.  You trust and love your friend.  Then, one day the police come to your door and start asking questions about your friend.  In the course of the discussion you learn that your friend is suspected of being a serial killer who has been eluding capture for over ten years.  Your friend is believed to have killed over twenty people.  Let’s say they show you convincing proof that this is true and you believe it.  After the police leave, the phone rings and its your friend.  How does your belief that they are a serial killer impact the way you now think and feel about your friend.  This is an extreme  and probably ridiculous example but it clearly demonstrates the power and influence of belief on our thinking, our emotions  and our perceptions.

The point of this is that belief drives and determines how and what we think about everything.  Over time, we deposit and embrace countless things we believe to be true in our Body of Truth.  The problem is this:  If our Body of Truth is built on foundational ideas that are not true, then our entire Body of Truth will be flawed. Every new thing we place in our Body of Truth must be consistent and compatible with every concept or idea that has preceded it.  If the foundational ideas are lies, the entire Body of Truth will become corrupt.

Since what we believe to be true of God is the most foundational belief possible -  How flawed is a life that is based on lies about God?