Explanation...

1/24/2003

Partial explanation of how so much called “christian” and “church” and “leader” often bear no resemblance to the Picture of Life in the Bible of “christian” and “church” and “leader.”

“There are two kinds of learning. To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is truly all about: why it is the case, what its connections are with other facts, in what respects it is the same, in what respects it is different, and so forth. You have gained nothing but information if you exercise only your memory of what was said so that you might repeat it. You have not been enlightened. Enlightenment is achieved only when you know what he means, and why it is true, and what applications are in keeping with this truth.

“Montaigne speaks of ‘an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it.’ The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their ‘ABC’s’—cannot ‘read’ at all. They do not have information that might allow them to escape their own experience set and finite intellect. The second is the ignorance of those who have misread what they have read. The Greeks have a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to those who know only words without elucidation—those devoid of wise application. They refer to those with this mixture of word knowledge, yet without wisdom and valid application, as ‘sophomores.’ (Greek sophos, wise—and mo¯ros, foolish).”

-excerpt from a pagan college book regarding the learning process

(Mat.7:21-27, 13:18-23).