The idea of cognitive dissonance is that there is a tension or disagreement between two ideas or an idea and experience. The first believers had a cognitive dissonance between “their experience of divine power and their actual condition in the world” (21). A few example mentioned include the first believers feeling powerless in oppression even after having divine power. Furthermore, they questioned why they were growing to be sick and die if they experience resurrection through baptism. Lastly, if they had holiness from the Spirit, why are they still sinning? Moreover, the Jews seemed to have an extreme cognitive dissonance between Jesus form of death and the words of the Torah. To illustrate, the Torah states that anyone hung upon a tree is