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There is so much I don't know. I was in my early twenties when a dentist told me brushing my teeth too hard had led to gum recession and the cavity like pain I was experiencing.
A friend of mine, who is very intelligent, was in her second year of college when she realized that Washington D.C. was not in the state of Washington - she just hadn't thought about it.
There is so much we don't know. The western world lived for thousands of years thinking the earth was the center of the universe, as well as flat. People were even killed our kicked out of their communities for questioning such assumptions.
We all admit we hold beliefs that are probably not true; the problem is, we don't know which ones they are!
These thoughts add so much color to a passage from the end of the "Love chapter" in 1 Corinthians 13 - the one you have heard at 99% of the weddings you have been to.
The author writes: "For we know only in part...for now we see in a mirror dimly, but some day we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I am fully known."This passage is so powerful. We are constantly arguing over what we know - pinning our understanding of science, religion, politics, ethics against one another, all the while running around in differing states of ignorance.
In my state of perpetual ignorance, I take great comfort in believing that it is not about how much I know, but that I am fully known.
