Mike’s Musings …
IG-nor ance or Ig NOR ance?
It isn't easy to write with emphasis. Hopefully, you note the intended emphasis is capitalized, and you thus note the difference between the two words of our musing. The first pronunciation means “lack of knowledge,” and the second pronunciation means “the attitude of ignoring facts.” Both are quite common traits among mankind, and both are “self-inflicted” maladies. The first is overcome by study and learning, and the second is overcome by paying attention to and accepting the facts presented on any subject. Regrettably, when it comes to obtaining wholesome knowledge of God’s Word, many souls remain both ignorant and ignorant! (Make the proper emphasis!)
The apostle John wrote, “Hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.” The apostle Paul said, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.” (Philippians 3: 8 – 11) Such knowledge will not permit either ignorance or ignorance; rather, great diligence in our study provides the acceptable knowledge, which, when applied, is wisdom, and is well pleasing to God.
I muse on the fact that both ignorance and ignorance and equally sinful and equally avoidable. Don’t you?