The language of the New Testament documents is starkly clear on the centrality of knowledge to following Jesus. It even defines or describes eternal life as knowledge. Jesus speaks of the eternal kind of life he brings to his people: "And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3; cf. 1 John 1:1–5; 2:3; 4:7–8, 13)….[R]ecall the ringing declarations of Paul: "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings" (Phil. 3:10), and "I know the one in whom I have put my trust" (2 Tim. 1:12). Or consider the
carefully laid out passage in 2 Peter 1:2–3: "May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." Shortly afterward we are told to support our "goodness," or virtue, with knowledge, as disciples of Jesus (v. 5). Then the admonition is given at the end of this letter to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (3:18). The assumption is that we have knowledge of him and that it can and should continually grow.
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