I learned about the Noetic effect of sin last month.
It means the fact that the fall damaged our ability to think and reason.

This is really nasty. It's just like you can't believe your own eyes. If it makes sense, well, it may be right or you may be crazy. Of course, this stain on our intellects is behind much of the world's suffering.

I spent most of my life reading the Bible for insights, and believing them if they made sense. And not if they didn't. So the Bible didn't really have authority. It took second place to my noetically trashed mind.

I've lately (BOUT TIME) been learning that if when the Bible doesn't make sense, I need to keep staring at it until it does. This way, the correct Bible can train my incorrect mind. And progress is made.

Now, you are making a lot of decisions of varying import, as it seems best to you. You may base them on government policy (Hey! I'm 18, after all!) or your own fed-up-ness (I'm mad as hell and I won't take it any longer!) or on any number of things. I can't really say what you base your decisions on. But in all cases you are using your noetically trashed mind to make those decisions.

Walk carefully. And spend lots of time staring at Bible passages "that don't make sense." You need to be on an accelerated program of noetically immune decision making. High stakes.