Why are we sometimes "Emotional Basket Cases"? I think it's because we don't base our perceptions on reality, rather, we think about what things are going to be like, based on our own preconceptions instead of on actual facts. Frankly, that's the problem with most people who are depressed. They are locked into the error of emotional and physical bondage. Realizing, then, how important it is to be able to discern truth from error, how can we learn to tell the difference?
We might compare the problem to a banker who, knowing that there is counterfeit money circulating, wants to teach his tellers how to distinguish between the real and the phony. The method he cooses is not to focus on the counterfeits. Rather, he provides them with so much exposure to real dollar bills that when a counterfeit bill slips in, it's obvious.
Likewise, Christians have one defense against erroe. That is to become so familiar with truth, as revealed in God's Word, that when they are confronted with error, it is easily discerned. But if we are not steeped in truth, we become gullible and vulnerable to all sorts of error.
The war between truth and error has raged for thousands of years. When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, they didn't commit adultery. They didn't steal or break any the other Commandments. It all began when Adam and Eve believed a lie instead of the truth. God made only one decree to Adam, that he not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Agreement with that one law meant Adam acknowledged that God and God alone determins what is right and wrong. The day Adam chose to eat of that tree, he became like God in the sense that he determined for himself right from wrong and good and evil.
From the day of the fall, man has continued to say, in essence, "I know more than You, God, about what's right and wrong. I don't need You to tell me the truth. I can discover it for myself." That's error, the ultimate error- the lie against the Truth.
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