Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Obligated to both wise and foolish

“I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish (Romans 1:14).”

In the rant titled, “Where the hell is it?”, the writer makes a very simple mistake. They are equating the limits of their understanding with the limits of reality. Immanuel Kant made the same mistake, poor fellow (apologies to any neo-Kantian philosophers amongst us).

Now I don’t know what constitutes “right knowledge” (perhaps a lecture on the 360 degrees of knowledge?) Who knows? But here is a nugget of right knowledge from the Apostle Paul: “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God "will give to each person according to what he has done." To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger” (Romans 2:5-8, NIV).