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KNOWLEDGE
We've all
heard the worn out phrase "Education is the answer." But is it
really?
People with anorexia
know that they will die if they stop eating, but knowledge of it is not
enough. People with lung cancer sometimes die
with a cigarette tucked in their tracheotomy hole. Had education been
the answer, they would have heeded the warning on the pack and added many
years to their lives. No,
in truth, education is only part of the answer. What is the whole answer?
It is to take your teaching from the right source. When you do, then
you will have true knowledge and wisdom, which is the advantageous use of
it.
Our problem is not
always knowing what is right and not doing it. In many cases, we are
just dead wrong in our thinking. Below is the library at Trinity
College in Dublin. We were there 3 years ago. I don't know
exactly how old this library is, but the books are old, dusty and
crumbly. We could safely say the information in this library is
outdated and mostly useless. But at the time this library was first
built, they no doubt perceived themselves as the most educated and
enlightened generation that had ever lived.
We all do that. It
was not 200 years ago that the best medical
minds were still bleeding patients. The Father of our Country, George Washington
died from this medical mayhem. The story goes that he woke up early in
the morning with a really sore throat and he couldn't breath well. The
doctors were called in and he was diagnosed with "Inflammatory Quinsy."
They bled him immediately, and long story short---they bled him 5 times or
more throughout the day and he passed
away that evening. "My people are
destroyed for the lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6
Whew! We don't do that
anymore, so are we safe to think that we are the most enlightened and educated
society that has ever lived? No. We may not bleed people but we do
things just as silly.
Have you seen any of the drug
commercials lately? You take "xxx drug" and the announcer says: "Side effects
are vomiting, hair loss, fainting spells, liver and heart damage." So
people take the drug for their blemishes, hangnails or whatever and then 1 year later,
you see an ad on television where "xxx drug" has been pulled off
the market because it has caused several deaths. All humanity is ignorant. I am. You are. The greatest minds on earth are.
All the knowledge on the face of the earth is less than a drop in the bucket
compared to what God knows. "The wisdom of this world is nonsense
in God's sight."
Paraphrased version 1 Corinthians 3:19
God knows the scoop.
Knowing this, it is hard to understand the incident in the Garden of Eden.
If Eve wanted "knowledge" so bad, why didn't she get it from the greatest source
of knowledge ever? No, she and Adam did not want
God. It is because man rejects God's moral standards. (No rape, no murder, no
stealing, no lying, no adultery, etc...) But God and His standards are part of the
whole package of right knowledge and wisdom, and eternal life.
All mankind followed Adam
and Eve and we too have rejected God and what He has to offer. Even though
all of this is ultimately part of God's plan, it is not hard to see why God has let
man
wallow in ignorance. And we live under Satan's rule to this day.
Even ignorant of that. ("Satan
has deceived the whole world." Revelation 12:9)
Go on
the internet, there is plenty of new knowledge...but, the internet has more
garbage in it than the dump. Just remember, much of what we hear on
television is not true, much of the information in libraries is not true.
Much of what is taught in College is not true. The truth unfortunately
is mixed in with all the lies and no one is able to discern which is which
anymore. Mankind has always partaken of the forbidden "Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil." Simply meaning the world chooses to get
it's information from Satan. And look what we have gotten for it...
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