Often it comes from replacing a hope centered in Christ with a hope for money, power or sex. Too often, desire overcomes hope. A loss of charity or love is generated most often by pride or contention. Their crisis was one of charity. While bitterness may well seem justified, it is a dangerous seed that destroys faith, hope and charity.
Disagreement becomes apostacy only when it is nurtured with a loss of charity.
Offended pride often results in what appears to be a crisis of intellect but is really just love grown cold. So many failures of faith, hope or charity occur that it is tempting to pigeonhole all claimed crises of intellect as mere sin, lust, pride or faintheartedness. Anyone having a true crisis of intellect will likely have a crisis of patience as well, but needs to be kind and forbearing with assumptions that are all to common and all too often justified. Introduction A crisis of intellect arises when a belief conflicts with a fact. Less simply, a crisis of intellect may arise when what we think is a doctrine of a church we believe in appears to be contradicted by what we think is a fact.