Chapter 5: “Revelation as the Foundation of Knowledge” or You didn’t figure this out on your own

We must apply our hearts to God’s knowledge if we are to know the certainty of His truth (Pr 22:17-21)

• Philosophers deny that there is absolute truth, but the God says that the Bible can make us “know the certainty of the words of truth) (Pr 22:20-21)
• To grasp it, we must “apply your mind to My knowledge)  (Pr 22:17b)

Because God’s knowledge is came first and is ultimate, man can only know what God already knows.  Therefore we must think God’s thoughts after him so that “in your light do we see light” (Ps 36:9)

Understanding and knowledge of the truth are the promised results when we make God’s word the basis of our presuppositions, our starting point for all intellectual activity

•  “The LORD my God lightens my darkness” (Ps 18:28)
• “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple” (Ps 119:130)
• “Attend unto my wisdom, incline your ear to My understanding in order that you may preserve discretion and in order that your lips may keep knowledge” (Pr 5:1-2)

Christians who pursue knowledge from a worldly perspective think they are smart because through their own efforts they have “figured out” a lot of stuff and understand to a large degree a lot of the teachings of the Bible.  They are actually deluded.

• Self-sufficiency is false.  Without Christ, we can do nothing.  (John 15:5)
•  “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge”.  All knowledge, even scientific knowledge (Pr 1:7)
• “Talk no more proudly: let not arrogance come from your mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge” (1 Sam 2:3)
• “He who teaches man knowledge – the LORD – knows the thoughts of man” (Ps 94:10)
• “What do you have that you have not received?” (1 Cor 4:7)

When men are not proper stewards of what God has given them (such as scholarly ability), then God will take away even what they previously possessed (by making that ability useless, empty)