How to Know When You Know by T.M. Moore
T.M. Moore offers important advice for those who, like me, may have been drawn to biblical worldview studies by the prospect of acquiring information.
I get the impression sometimes that for many of those engaging in this [worldview] conversation, “Biblical worldview” refers to a raft of propositions to be developed, adumbrated, embraced, proclaimed, and defended against the unbelieving worldviews of our day—a category of knowledge, a system of beliefs or views about reality that we propose in contradistinction to the manifestly bankrupt worldviews of our modernist/postmodernist generation. Worldview equates to knowledge for many people. When you know the Biblical worldview, your job is to propound and defend it against all comers.
Certainly this apologetic dimension is part of what we intend by pursuing this conversation over Biblical worldview. We want the followers of Jesus Christ to understand the full ramifications of His Lordship, the profound implications of His all-embracing truth, and the utter beauty and goodness of the system of faith that we have received from the Apostles and the grand tradition of our forebears.
But the Scriptures never equate knowledge with knowing, and, in Biblical terms, the latter is by far the more important idea. Anyone can get knowledge; only those who make proper use of it can arrive at a place of knowing.
So how can we know when we know, as well as when we don’t know?