Direct Answer
Jason does not fully explain why the assumption is so easy to hold, but he says it worked in him without his noticing it. Giving it up cost him comfort, because he had to face what he did not know.
Support from the Message
- Jason says he could not have cared less about church history and was very ignorant of it. - He says he thought, without realizing it, that we know more in our day than people in the past. - He jokingly calls it a crazy idea that something taught from the beginning might be worth following. - He says it was a struggle to leave his earlier view of baptism and embrace what the historic church taught. - He finds it convicting that the early Christians quote passages he feels he should know and does not.
Discussion Follow-up
What views do you hold mainly because they are common in your own time? What would it take for you to test them against the earliest Christians?