As with all other facets of life, mankind approaches their religious beliefs without considering the implications of the Gestalt Principle of Closure and how we tend to finish something unknown with our preconceived ideas. The same is true of Bongard problems which children are able to solve, but baffle adults whose primary way of coping and making sense in the world is to fill in the missing pieces with their own beliefs.

Joseph Smith said there are angels in heaven, who desire to look into the priesthood, but cannot because in mortality they set up too many stakes. They said this far God may go and no farther. They filled in what God is with the Gestalt Principle of Closure, rather than letting God inform them who he is.

 

See Also

The McGurk Effect