The Pursuit of Knowledge

The Scriptures imply a tension between a lack of knowledge (ignorance) and a foolish pursuit of knowledge (which leads to arrogance and isolation). The text this Sunday will be the final few verses in the first chapter of Ecclesiastes. Here are some related passages which may aid in your personal participation with the text:

Romans 10:2 - ...they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Isaiah 5:13 - ...my people go into exile
for lack of knowledge...

1 Timothy 6:20 - ...Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge"...

1 Corinthians 13 (The Message) - If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love...