Right or wrong knowledge.

            God´s knowledge or the knowledge of the world ?

In the time we live in with all the information that´s available to us, it´s easy for us to get caught up in listening mostly to negative things. But even if we listen to both positive and negative stuff, there´s a tendency that the negative is what prevails. This applies to everything, not just covid, although this now seems to be the only thing being discussed.

I must admit that I often think that its a disadvantage that we have access to as much information as we have today. Following news and wheather via television or newspapers, does not only take up our time. Everything we read and hear goes in and also affects us, in one way or another.

It´s very easy that what we take in, actually takes over our thought life, and therefore also controls us. A lot can also affect us in such a way that God becomes smaller than what we read about. Faith and fear are set against each other, and faith in God ends up in second place, regardless of whether we see it or even dare to think that thought through.

Lots of the information available today can be good, but a lot also bad. The flow of information we have access to today, drowns us in a way. What´s positive is that we can easily google and get answers to all our questions. The downside however, is that we then take in all the negative - which in turn can make us behave just like hypochondriacs.

As worldly knowledge grows, God and His knowledge decreases. We see it in society at large. Where the worldly knowledge comes in, God goes out. I don´t by this mean that God himself leaves, but rather that people leave God, because man himself can and knows better than God.

For too many Christians, the effect of their growth in knowledge is the same, even if they don´t want to feel it.

It is quite eerie that Daniel 4:12 prophesies that knowledge will grow and people will run back and forth in the end times. This is where we´re at now, we do no longer need to wait for it to happen. The information we need is a push of a button away, and we run after this and that, in addition to the general stress that exists today.

The more knowledge we gather in, the more we rely on that knowledge, this also applies to our own knowledge, which we have acquired through what we have read or listened to. This in turn can affect us so we don´t see, that we put this knowledge over God himself.

If what I write is considered annoying, well then it must be so. For somewhere, we as Christians actually need to have God in the front room and the wordly knowledge that we can acquire in the back room.

Worldly knowledge versus divine knowledge. The worldly gets us easily in its grip and if it does, it controls us. We can see this i.a. In those who are completely dependent on knowing what the weather will be like, they cannot leave home without first seeing the weather. And the case isn´t always that these forecasts are what in reality awaits either. We can also see that this is the case today by all computers and mobile phones giving us access to know the weather wherever we are.

The divine knowledge is about learning who God is, what He has done, i.e. everything that has to do with tat which is above. This is where we should seek our knowledge, not through external worldly sources.

The knowledge of God and everything divine, it´s to us christian the very lifeblood. Without this knowledge, our faith is destroyed spiritually. It is in the knowledge of God and all things divine that we must grow.

God and the divine knowledge stands in contrast to the knowledge of the world, which denies that there even is a God. Without it, the wind can blow us anywhere. Just as the rock of our salvation is Jesus, knowledge is to us like a kind of anchor that holds us to the right knowledge, even like a kind of compass, so that what we don´t get lost in everything that wants to intrude.

"If we googlesearch on; What is knowledge? Then comes the answer; People have been thinking about this since ancient times, Plato and Aristotle were among those who began to think about what it was, how it was produced and who or what managed previous knowledge and shaped new knowledge. There will also be different ways of acquiring knowledge and different names under which it can be distributed. Brief summary information;

"Knowledge is a social temporary construction" (unknown)

Knowledge is a learned ability to understand, reproduce and apply information and ideas. A person can develop new knowledge himself by drawing conclusions from practical experiences and discoveries, by combining other acquired knowledge or through systematic research with the help of scientific methods.

”If we make a googlesearch on; What is knowledge? The answer we resieve; People have been thinking about this since ancient times, Plato and Aristotle were among those who began to think about what it was, how it was produced and who or what managed previous knowledge and shaped new knowledge. There will also be different ways to acquire knowledge and different names under which it can be distributed. Brief summary information;

In the philosophical discipline of theory of knowledge (also called epistemology) one often starts from Plato's definition of knowledge as "beliefs; which are both true and that we have good reason to believe ".

Competence = a person's ability to perform something with the help of knowledge and skills that are linked to what is to be done.

Explicit knowledge = a certain type of information

Silent knowledge = knowledge gathered through experience. Knowledge is subjective and intuitive. It is difficult to transform tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge.

Aristotle shared knowledge in three forms:
4. Episteme - "needed to understand how the world is structured and works"
5. Techne - "needed to be able to manufacture, create and produce"
6. Fronesis - "used to be able to develop a good judgment and act as ethical people and democratic citizens"

Source: Gustavsson, B. (2000). Philosophy of knowledge. Three forms of knowledge in historical lighting."

Put this against knowledge of God and the divine. The Bible is clear on the fact that the most valuable thing is the knowledge of Him. Without knowledge of who God is and what is divine, how can we even know what is expected of us.

Wisdom comes from God, from scripture, the result of God's wisdom is knowledge and understanding. Prov. 2 6 and in the letter of Jacob we are told that we can freely ask for this knowledge and God will give us generously of it. Knowledge begins with the fear of God and the fear of God begins with reverence to God. Reverence = esteem, honor, glorify, worship, sanctify, worship.

The Bible calls human knowledge useless. Human wisdom makes people proud. It inflates us rather than nurtures us in love. Therefore, the pursuit of knowledge that is outside of God is stupidity.

We do not become wise from human knowledge, we can only become wise through divine knowledge. The fear of God is necessary for divine knowledge, and divine knowledge is a necesaty to become wise.

If we haven´t lready thought about this, ten it would be about time that we do so.

God´s peace Ingemo