Don't be proud. Don't be pushy.
Cognitive Dissonance is a very powerful thing.
When Jesus rebuked the pharisees, He wasn't really worried about their cognitive dissonance. He straight up told them the Truth regardless:
Matthew 23:13 But
woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore
ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold
more the child of hell than yourselves.
16
Woe unto you, ye
blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is
guilty.
19
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and
swallow a camel.
25
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are
full of extortion and excess.
26
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
what if Proverbs 8 speaks of 2 deeps
"What if"? You call this an answer? -And it doesn't speak of 2 "deeps". He drew a circle on the face of
the deep. (singular)
What is the surface of
the singular deep?