![]() ![]() 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. Paul says it slightly differently in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12,ġ0 …with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. ![]() The people of God are accused of rejecting knowledge, as it says in Hosea 4:6, We are closed to anything which might make us feel like we were possibly less informed than what we thought we were. ![]() Not knowing what we don’t know - yet presuming we know enough - is a particularly damning condition because we become closed to that which does not suit us. If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know… To compound the matter, those of us who come upon some knowledge believe that we have discovered all knowledge - or the most important knowledge - not realizing that we don’t know what we don’t know. This condition - on the one hand wanting to feel informed but at the same time being desperately ignorant - is what we would call “haughtiness”. Christians often feel a pernicious desire to be informed about the world - both about our present times and the history leading up to them - but in doing so we often ignore the Scriptures which unequivocally state that being informed according to the ordinances of God will be the exception. ![]()
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