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As an insightful editorial in a popular national newspaper put it: "With nearly 1,000 new books published in the U.S. each week, the pressure to stay informedweighs heavily. But there is a difference between information and wisdom" (emphasis added throughout). The current figure in Britain is about 300 new books published each day, not to mention the massive amounts of information available around the world through new technologies.
Clearly, understanding and information are not synonymous. Wrote former British foreign secretary Francis Pym: "The images we see on television reflect onlythe symptoms and consequences of a problem . . . When we see world events described by commentators, that does not lead to understanding, but only to an emotional reaction and the acquisition of casual knowledge."
So, in spite of this massive proliferation of information, a void exists. Informative knowledge alone won't do. American writer Saul Bellow articulated this fundamental problem: "Information is to be found in daily papers. We are informed about everything, we know nothing."
This is where the Bible enters the picture. The inspired Word of God stands as the solid source of all right knowledge. The Bible provides the proper framework of the essential knowledge through which all other useful information is properly understood. Without this crucial foundation, we live in a confused muddle—constantly inundated with an avalanche of information we cannot fully grasp or understand.
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