{"id":6549,"date":"2015-04-23T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2015-04-22T12:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:11:24","slug":"knowledge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/04\/23\/knowledge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2018How can you say, \u201cWe know the score.
\nWe\u2019re the proud owners of God\u2019s revelation\u201d?
\nLook where it\u2019s gotten you\u2014stuck in illusion.
\nYour religion experts have taken you for a ride!
\nYour know-it-alls will be unmasked,
\ncaught and shown up for what they are.
\nLook at them! They know everything but God\u2019s Word.
\nDo you call that \u201cknowing\u201d?
\n\u201c\u2018So here\u2019s what will happen to the know-it-alls:
\nI\u2019ll make them wifeless and homeless.
\nEveryone\u2019s after the dishonest dollar,
\nlittle people and big people alike.
\nProphets and priests and everyone in between
\ntwist words and doctor truth.
\n My dear Daughter\u2014my people\u2014broken, shattered,
\nand yet they put on Band-Aids,
\nSaying, \u201cIt\u2019s not so bad. You\u2019ll be just fine.\u201d
\nBut things are not \u201cjust fine\u201d!
\nDo you suppose they are embarrassed
\nover this outrage?
\nNot really. They have no shame.
\nThey don\u2019t even know how to blush.
\nThere\u2019s no hope for them. They\u2019ve hit bottom
\nand there\u2019s no getting up.
\nAs far as I\u2019m concerned,
\nthey\u2019re finished.\u2019\u201d God has spoken. (Jeremiah 8:8-12)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is easy to overestimate one\u2019s knowledge. A college student in his or her second year is called a Sophomore. It comes from two Greek words: sophos<\/em>, wise, and m\u014dros<\/em>, stupid. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, because people easily believe that they know more than they really do. Seeing how much more they know than others, they become proud.<\/p>\n

A genuine education has been obtained when the student realizes how little he knows\u2014and how little he can ever know. Humility is the consequence of genuine knowledge, because only then can we see how small we are and how big the subject matter is. <\/p>\n

The Israelites had received a little knowledge of God; they\u2019d gotten some of his words. They mistakenly imagined they knew it all. Instead, they knew nothing, and what little they did know, they didn\u2019t even use. They simply patted themselves on the back for what they\u2019d gotten, as if what they had gotten was merely a pretty shiny jewel that sparkled and they could enjoy the light show.
\nGod concluded that they didn\u2019t deserve their scholarship any more. He would send them back to captivity in Babylon. They hadn\u2019t learned anything yet\u2014and their test scores were abysmal.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018How can you say, \u201cWe know the score. We\u2019re the proud owners of God\u2019s revelation\u201d? Look where it\u2019s gotten you\u2014stuck in illusion. Your religion experts have taken you for a ride! Your know-it-alls will be unmasked, caught and shown up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}