Year-End 2025
I am loosely linking this to WCN publisher Rob Pue’s article, “Knowledge Increasing” (Aug. 2025). I agree that secular technological knowledge has been ever more rapidly increasing. Yet, my topic is upon Biblical ignorance. Many have written about the decline of Bible reading and study that seems to shadow the secular knowledge increase, Rob notes. He quotes from Daniel 12:4, “... and knowledge shall be increased.” Rob’s first sentence reads, “One could spend an entire lifetime in deep study and never fully digest or comprehend all that’s shared with us in the book of Daniel.” Again, I agree.
How, then, can I connect Daniel to Biblical ignorance? For that, I quote a portion of The Lord’s response to the Sadducees in Matthew 22:29, “You do err not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of GOD.” Nearly all of HIS disputes are with such persons, the Bible scholars of that time. These were not the common people that one might expect to be ignorant, but the rabbis, teachers. How could this be?
To gain an idea, let’s go to the origins of the Scriptures. Exodus 9:14, “And The LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua...” First note that Moses ...
