God's word regularly exhorts us to learn:
Col. 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
2 Tim. 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Pet. 1:5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
2 Pet. 3:14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation — as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
I am not suggesting we can't know things are true or that we should be afraid to teach things which we have become fully convinced of from God's word. However, it seems obvious that we must remain humble and not go beyond what we have learned from much study in the word. This makes sense, because whatever we believed about something before we learned it rightly from the word was wrong!
Therefore, we can assume we are still wrong about some things for as long as we live on this earth. Yet, we must make it our goal to learn all we can for our good, God’s glory, and because He said so, for as long as He leaves us here!
It is much better to be wrong about some things as we diligently study God's word, than to not study and all!
"Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved."
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