The ordinary members of a church have an immense amount of information about God, Jesus, what they ought to do, and their own destiny. It has come to them through the Christian tradition. Some parts of it are false or misguided, to be sure. No one completely avoids that—even me. But generally we have the “right answers,” and those answers are very precious indeed. But as things stand we are, by and large, unable to believe them in the way we genuinely do believe multitudes of things in our “real” life.
