A man teaching a class on how to become a salesman stated that 85% of the decisions people make are based on emotion or feeling. A decision based on feeling led to Lucifer’s fall in heaven, and will, no doubt, result in millions of souls in this world being lost.
“His [Lucifer’s] disaffection was proved to be without cause, and he was made to see what would be the result of persisting in revolt. Lucifer was convinced that he was in the wrong. He saw that ‘the Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works’ (Psalm 145:17); that the divine statutes are just, and that he ought to acknowledge them as such before all heaven. Had he done this, he might have saved himself and many angels. … He nearly reached the decision to return, but pride forbade him. It was too great a sacrifice for one who had been so highly honored to confess that he had been in error, that his imaginings were false, and to yield to the authority which he had been working to prove unjust.” Patriarchs and Prophets, 39
Feelings were the problem for Judas. “He saw his faults, but instead of correcting them revenged himself by picking flaws in others around him. … You can gain no spiritual strength by talking about the defects of those around you; but if you continue to do this, like Judas you will eventually separate yourselves from God and His work.” The Review and Herald, August 18, 1885
Making decisions based on feelings is one of the biggest problems in Christendom today.
“Look at men who are professedly converted under the excitement of feeling. They are not brought to face the great moral mirror, the law of God, which discovers to them the defects in their character. … They feel no binding claims of the law of God … they have not a sensitive conscience toward sin. They have not a fixed principle. … They are unsound at heart. … [T]hey will follow inclination [and] you will see that there is not firmness when it is really needed.
“Oh, how much to be admired is a true, sincere Christian! Such a one will be loyal to God and true to his Saviour, living a life of purity, cultivating habits of the strictest temperance, making the word of God his daily study, earnest and faithful to duty, not wearying in well-doing, growing up into full stature in Jesus Christ, his Head.” Manuscript Releases, Vol. 4, 186