The Bible for Grown-Ups | Part 4 | For the World | Michelle Snook

For the World
March 28, 2021

They say that ignorance is bliss. But is it, really?

According to an article on Forbes website, artificial intelligence experts are now teaching computers to come up with better questions, because humans aren’t as good at identifying the gaps in our knowledge as we think we are.

In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know.

In fact, you will never know what you don’t know. There will always be gaps in your knowledge; places where you are absolutely clueless as to your ignorance.

And in a culture such as ours where being “in the know” matters so much and admitting “I don’t know” can be seen as some sort of fault or failure, sometimes we forget we don’t know what we don’t know, and act like we know it all. Because who wants to actually admit that they don’t know anything about something?

Over the last three weeks, we’ve been discovering some of the things we didn’t know that we didn’t know about where we got the Bible. We’ve realized that we know a good bit about what’s in the Bible, but not as much as we thought about how the Bible came to be, or how it fits together, and why that matters.

This week we’re wrapping up the series with a look at the New Testament and how it fits together with the Old Testament. Sometimes it can feel like the two parts don’t go together very well. I invite you to join us this week as we bridge the gap and see how the two parts of The Bible do fit together. It’s almost like God planned it that way!