“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Transference occurs when we respond to a newspaper article by saying, “Wow, that could have been me.” How can advertising be effective unless all humans basically think alike? Does the Bible address this phenomenon? Yes. That is why believers are instructed not to be thinking like the natural man.
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Give it some thought.
Gary