“The most difficult thing for any human seems to be to admit being wrong—to confess error of belief and conviction,” wrote Herbert W. Armstrong. Scientists studying the brain have concluded that people respond to correction and criticism in a similar way to physical pain.

But why should it be so hard for us to accept correction?

In Hebrews 12, the Apostle Paul writes that God is a Father who corrects His children. “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (verses 5-6).

“The most difficult thing for any human seems to be to admit being wrong—to confess error of belief and conviction,” wrote Herbert W. Armstrong. Scientists studying the brain have concluded that people respond to correction and criticism in a similar way to physical pain.

But why should it be so hard for us to accept correction?

In Hebrews 12, the Apostle Paul writes that God is a Father who corrects His children. “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (verses 5-6).