Is it going to far to suggest that we have an almost unquenchable thirst for knowledge? Perhaps not as individuals, though we certainly want to understand those things that happen to us, that involve us directly. But as a society, as a country, as a human race – knowledge is power. The quest for knowledge surpasses anything else.
But where did that quest come from? Might I suggest that it actually isn’t a blessing at all… Rather, a curse.
Genesis 2 tells us of the glory of the Garden of Eden. This was God’s plan for the world. This is what the world looked like before the fall of man. There were trees all through the garden, all of them good for food. There was just one tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that he was not permitted to eat from.
I think of that and think that the tree might be better called the tree of the knowledge of evil, for Adam already knew good. It wasn’t a knowledge of good that he stood to gain. It was only evil. But Adam ate of that tree. And that began a quest for knowledge that cannot be quenched. I quench for knowledge that God did not desire in His creation. Thus, a curse.
Could it be that our quest for knowledge is really a lack of trust in God? We have to understand why things work, because we don’t really trust in God to keep them working. We have to understand all we can about medicine, because we don’t really trust God to heal us. We have to know all about the stars and outer-space, because we don’t really believe God created.
Truth is, I think we have it all wrong. It is better to trust than to know…
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