The Role of Knowledge

The Christian religion is a religion of learning. One’s participation in the blessings of God as manifested and made available through Christ and his gospel is proportionate to his knowledge of the things that God wants him to know. When the law of Moses was in effect, God’s people were often in distress because of a lack of knowledge. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6). This destruction did not come for lack of knowing what they could not know, for the same text says: “Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you.” We should not be as concerned about the unknowable, or the unimportant things, as we should be about what we can know but do not know because we have not used our opportunities to know. Being made free from sin is inseparably connected to knowing. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth…