COMING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, we catch a glimpse of of ignorance of any knowledge about God. The scholarly of the world in the first century were the Athenian intellectuals. Some of them encountered the Apostle Paul in Athens.
Then certain philosophers of Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, what will this babbled say? Other some, HE seemeth to be a setter firth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus atop Mars Hill, saying, Maybwe knowcwhat this new doctrine, wereof thou speakest, is?
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions objects of worship Revised Standard Version, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth....He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on ...the earth....for in him we live, and move, and have our being... Acts17:18-19, 22-26, 28.
And now what of the scholarly of our western world today? One would think, the most highly educated ought to know WHO and WHAT GOD is! Suppose you ask at random 100 university dean's, Do you believe in God? PERHAPS THREE OR FOUR WOULD ANSWER, OH I BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AS A FIRST CAUSE. But they cannot tell you WHO and WHAT GOD IS! They cannot tell you what God is like! God is not real to them. In other words, he is a mystery. Perhaps another six or eight of the hundred will admit they are agnostics they do not know for sure whether God exists.
I have said that education has become a matter of memory installation. From elementary grades to higher graduate levels of study , our educational system inject ready-made concepts, ideologies and a mixture of facts and fables into the unsuspecting minds of children, youths and young adults. Students in our school systems are graded according to how well they accept, memorize and can recite or write in tests what has been taught whether true or false.
Modena education has given universal acceptance to the fable of evolution. Evolution is the agnosticism or atheist's attempt to explain the existence of a creation without the preexistente of the Creator. It removes God from the picture. It blinds itself to the mystery by attempting to remove God altogether.
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