I think that many of our unconscious errors in Scripture are because of

1.) being misled, either accidentally or on purpose. There are many who deliberately mislead us so that they have more control of us, or can exploit us. As Scripture points out, many would mislead us from such motives.

“having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;”
2Pe 2:14 WEB

2.) However another area of misdirection is our just not doing our homework as we should. Sometimes we too uncritically accept what others say without actually testing the ideas we hear against Scripture.

Sometimes we do not think and reason and study as we should. Perhaps at other times we tend to read our own ideas into Scripture instead of actually listening to what Scripture has to say.

3.) Sometimes either accidentally or on purpose we start neglecting parts of God’s word, and so overtime our views of Scripture and the world become distorted, because we are not playing with a full deck! Paul tells us,

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
2Tim 3:16 KJV

SO HOW MUCH Scripture “is PROFITABLE for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness”?

The answer is all of it is! And if we use all of it, then we can be,

“… throughly furnished unto all good works.”
2Tim 3:16

But if we habitually neglect parts of Scripture, then we will be missing some of the spiritual vitamins and minerals that we need.

Now we are not under Moses law, it has been taken out of the way, nailed to the cross, Col 2:14. Even so it is true that,

“Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.”
Rom 7:12 WEB

That indeed sounds like something that we should be able to learn from, and it is. So even though we are under the law of Christ, Gal 6:2, etc., we should be getting even “doctrine” from Moses law, BECAUSE: “All scripture … is profitable for doctrine,” 2Tim 3:16 KJV

So in 1 Corinthians 9 Paul uses a regulation about oxen from Moses law (“You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. ” Deut 25:4 WEB), to prove that full-time ministers of Christ should be paid!

Sometimes we accidentally neglect
parts of Scripture

Sometimes we merely like some portions of Scripture more than others. This is true of both preachers and teachers and also those in the pew. At other times, current errors in society and the church mean that we emphasis some parts over others. Then over time, that perhaps needed emphasis, results in neglect of vital parts of the truth, much to our detriment!

How you approach things is very important:
your “angle of entry.”

So it has been that many portions of the church have completely neglected prophecy, much to out detriment.

KJV is the King James Version, 1611.

WEB is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901