I wasn’t quite clear about what you were getting at, though I think I get the sense of what you mean.
Merely that they were chattering and coming to their own (i.e. wrong) conclusion, for which they needed to be corrected.
How many wrong conclusions based on human chatter and human reasoning have built up over a couple thousand years? It’s like 50 layers of paint on a window.
Good luck seeing through it, much less being able to pry the thing open to let in air and light. Nobody on the inside is even aware of what they are missing and misunderstanding.