Watergate and Genesis

In the Watergate trial the most famous and important question was “What did he (the President) know and when did he know it?” Genesis asks a famous philosophical question, “How do we know?”

Adam and Eve decided that the serpent was right, there was some knowledge God had kept for Himself and it was to be found outside of God. Throughout the Bible God implores people to ask Him for knowledge, and excoriates His people for searching for wisdom outside of Him. Jesus, in the Beatitudes, turns wisdom on its head. Paul speaks of the wisdom of God which seems like foolishness to men.

Who would think that a man dying on a cross 2000 years ago was the personification of wisdom itself? Does the cross tell us something about how we know things that turns all knowledge on its ear? On Sunday we sang a song with the lyrics, “When I survey the Wondrous Cross” and “The Wonderful Cross.” The resurrection of Jesus makes the cross wonderful and wondrous, and knowing, knowledge and wisdom find another source and another goal.

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