Knowing How to Know

Course Description:

Given all the mistakes in intellectual history, how can anyone be sure of what they think they know? One day we hear from science that eggs are bad for you; another day we hear that eggs are good for you. Is there even such a thing as true knowledge? Top secular universities teach students to believe that people can't "know." By contrast, God says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). What is knowledge? King Solomon said, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Proverbs 1:7).  If you want to get grounded in truth that teaches you how to learn and engage the right kind of doubt, then come to this epistemology course.

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Key Questions To Be Explored:

• What does it mean to have knowledge, not mere opinions or beliefs?

• What is the spiritual gift of knowledge?

• Doesn’t the Bible say that knowledge makes people arrogant? If so, then why seek it?

• How does having knowledge relate to finding the moral courage to act with integrity as Christ followers?