Knowledge

Knowledge and wisdom are not the same. In general knowledge has to do with knowing facts and wisdom is the ability to put those facts to use. Solomon said that "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction and "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." [Proverbs 1:7; 9:10]  The word he used for wisdom in the Hebrew means "knowledge, perception, skill, discernment, understanding, wisdom.'  All true wisdom comes as the result of fearing God.  To fear God means to respect, show reverence for God. When we respect God, we allow ourselves to be willing learners of the knowledge and wisdom that comes from Him. On the other hand, when a person does not respect God, he refuses to expose himself to the knowledge that comes from God. 

What kind of man rejects the knowledge that comes from an omniscient God and accepts the knowledge of man?  The reason the person who rejects the knowledge that comes from God is a fool is that to accept any other source of knowledge is to accept uncertainty. Man at best can only guess at the past and his guess is determined by  his predetermined prejudices not honest scientific inquiry. Here is an an example of such predetermined prejudices. Dr. George Wald, professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University and Nobel prize winner in 1971 when speaking of creation said, "I will not accept that philosophically, because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution."¹ His interpretation of the past based is not science. Webster defines science as "the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena; knowledge that [is] gained through experience."   God is recorded as asking Job  "where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." [Job 38:4] The answer is that neither Job or any man was present. Therefore any knowledge man has about the origins of the universe either come from God or is nothing more than theory.  It is not true science because it falls outside the definition of being observable or experimental investigation.

Another reason the man who rejects the knowledge that comes from an omniscient God is a fool because man can only speculate what the future might bring and more often that not his speculations are incorrect. On the other hand, there is not one event prophesied in Scripture that when it has come to pass have not just be close to or in the neighborhood of the prophetic statements but have been fulfilled exactly as prophesied.  Many of these prophesies have been made as much as 1000 years before the event took place. Here is a small sample:

"The probability that all the monkeys in Africa could run over to a single typewriter and, without error, retype all the books in the English language is 1 in 2 x 10¹¹⁰.
Those odds are better than the probability of Jesus fulfilling all Messianic prophecies. The probabilities are based on the following basic 8 events occurring in a population of 10¹¹ people:

1. One person in the World been born in Bethlehem. 1:200,000
2. One person rode into Jerusalem, riding a foal of a donkey, claiming to be king of the Jews. 1:100
3. One person been paid thirty pieces of silver to turn someone in to the authorities. 1:1000
4. One person has been wounded in their hands. 1:1000
5. A person charged and been innocent and not defended himself. 1:1000
6. Jesus was crucified between two thieves, but was buried in the tomb of one of the richest men. 1:1000
7. Died from crucifixion 1:10,000
8. The money paid to betray Jesus would be returned to the priests and used to buy a potter's field 1:100,000"²
    

In the face of such precise knowledge, I find it hard to accept the finite knowledge of man in light of the knowledge that comes from an omniscient God. Where can you find this knowledge that comes from God? It is written in the Bible. Before you make a judgment, read it for yourself don't rely on the word of others not even mine.  Hosea the prophet in speaking of the problem of Israel could have been speaking to about America when he said, "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." [4:1]

1. Quoted from Scientific American found in Evolution Fact or Fiction p. 10
2. http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre03propchristnotes.html