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NASB | 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
Bible Question: Is there ever a time we have too much knowledge? |
Bible Answer: If you are talking about knowledge about spiritual things, I think that it is a matter of focus. One can study and learn about facts about biblical times and what the people wore, and what happened when and why, etc.and spend so much time on those studies that one doesn't recognize the truth in scripture. In a situation like that he has too much knowledge because he has deprived himself of the Truth. 1Tim 6:4,5. I think our time is best spent in the scriptures in order to know our God and Savior Jesus Christ. Reading and listening, searching and finding, praising and rejoicing. Our God is alive and is a good Teacher. We need to know the Truth. Isa 28:9 says,"To whom would He teach knowledge? And to whom would He interpret the message?..For He says..Indeed, *He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue." Contrast that with 1Cor 14:21, "Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, "By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me," says the Lord....the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that *God is certainly among you." I believe that God is among us and that He will speak to our hearts. But I also believe 2Tim 4:3, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrines; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths." So we have to preach the word. Later, Ray |