Most people realize that the very highly educated, the doctors, lawyers,
professors, of the modern world are a largely unreached people group.
There's no shortage of profs who are downright hostile to Christianity.
Too much smarts often leads to an egocentricism that is spiritually unhealthy. As I wrote in a post many months ago, smart people can't imagine G^d being more than just a bit smarter than they.
Well here's a question for us all.
Think about all the knowledge in the world: particle physics, chemistry, Philosophy, Linguistics, astronomy, mathematics, biology, history, geography, geology, education, philosophy, English literature, medicine, dentistry, law, Communications, and lot of other fields.
Now what percentage of that knowledge do you think you have?
We professors know a lot, but the breadth of our knowledge is necessarily constrained...
Point is, we don't know an awful lot of stuff...
If our smart friends are willing to admit that they know only a lot about a very limited material, doesn't that create the possibility that they have not exhausted all knowledge in their consideration of the possibility of the Creator G^D?
A second question is, how much do we know about the things going on within 50 m of us? What do we know about the workings of our own bodies, about the trees, shrubs, rocks, bacteria, viri, materials, televisions, computers, telephones, etc.?
It turns out that even the smartest among us, aren't quite so smart in the very broad scheme of things.
"...but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory..." (I Corth 2:7)
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS..." (I Corth 3:19)
L^rd help us to share Christ with humility and compassion, but help us as,
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. " ((II Corth 10:5)
Too much smarts often leads to an egocentricism that is spiritually unhealthy. As I wrote in a post many months ago, smart people can't imagine G^d being more than just a bit smarter than they.
Well here's a question for us all.
Think about all the knowledge in the world: particle physics, chemistry, Philosophy, Linguistics, astronomy, mathematics, biology, history, geography, geology, education, philosophy, English literature, medicine, dentistry, law, Communications, and lot of other fields.
Now what percentage of that knowledge do you think you have?
We professors know a lot, but the breadth of our knowledge is necessarily constrained...
Point is, we don't know an awful lot of stuff...
If our smart friends are willing to admit that they know only a lot about a very limited material, doesn't that create the possibility that they have not exhausted all knowledge in their consideration of the possibility of the Creator G^D?
A second question is, how much do we know about the things going on within 50 m of us? What do we know about the workings of our own bodies, about the trees, shrubs, rocks, bacteria, viri, materials, televisions, computers, telephones, etc.?
It turns out that even the smartest among us, aren't quite so smart in the very broad scheme of things.
"...but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory..." (I Corth 2:7)
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS..." (I Corth 3:19)
L^rd help us to share Christ with humility and compassion, but help us as,
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. " ((II Corth 10:5)
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