Ignorance

by David Long

Are we living in the "Dark Ages?" You would think that with the "information highway" or the internet that people would have some "smarts." But ignorance is alive and well in our world. I saw a video where a man was interviewing people buying toilet paper and asking them, "Why were they buying so much toilet paper?" Some wouldn't answer and none had a good answer. The truth is they didn't know why.
I thought, how sad. But I also thought how true when it comes to religion. People don't know what they believe or why they believe. God said of His people in the Old Testament, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." (Hosea 4:6). Ignorance of the word of God will kill one spiritually. Do people really study the Bible today? No, they do not. Do they really search the Scriptures to see if those things are so (Acts 17:11)? The Bible stories or accounts that used to be common knowledge with just about anyone, aren't common anymore.