And to whatever portion is actually asking: The dissonance is an important part of American evangelicalism or whatever you like to call it. End result is that God's plan gets to be whatever an authority in your life decides it is
I would expand this to say not just an important part of American Evangelicalism but the entire core necessary and defining component in my mind of the power structure part of "The American Civic Religion(tm)" and the principle piece from which control structures that allow American Protestantism (at least since Jerry Falwell) to operate with the same purpose that Catholicism did in Rome, that is, to functionally reign in all dissent from "Conservative Christian Doctrine" and ensure that this vital conservative political power structure can never again be divorced from the specific beliefs of their target "audience's" faith.
I would expand this to say not just an important part of American Evangelicalism but the entire core necessary and defining component in my mind of the power structure part of "The American Civic Religion(tm)" and the principle piece from which control structures that allow American Protestantism (at least since Jerry Falwell) to operate with the same purpose that Catholicism did in Rome, that is, to functionally reign in all dissent from "Conservative Christian Doctrine" and ensure that this vital conservative political power structure can never again be divorced from the specific beliefs of their target "audience's" faith.