If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. (I Corinthians 8:2,3 ESV)
Encyclopedias
Just outside my office we used to have four encyclopedia sets. Perhaps we’d think that just about everything we needed to know could be found in those volumes. We got rid of three of them, though. Because we realized that even four complete sets are not enough.
Even the internet is not enough.
Even the internet when it becomes a part of Quantum Mechanics will not be enough.
So many articles in our encyclopedias had been proven wrong. So many articles had been proven right again. So many topics were obsolete. So many topics were incomplete. So many topics were absent.
There is one thing, though, that we Christians can particularly know. Even though He is more mysterious even than quarks and black holes, we know Him. That is not arrogance, it is amazing.
In fact, Paul hints that knowing God (loving God) is the thing that gives all the rest of the encyclopedic knowledge context, focus, and purpose.
Maybe we should not have gotten rid of them.
We are peculiar, we love God, and are known by Him.