"If somebody thinks to know something, he still doesn't know what he's got to know," 1 Corinthians 8:2.
Why not? because logical, rational deduction cannot deliver the whole of required knowledge. Right thinking brings us along the pathway, but it has no capacity to lift us up all the way into God's realm. No. What completes the path is love. To know for sure that there is only one God, our Father, Creator of everything; to know there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we exist; to know idols are nothing and multiple deities are human imagination. This knowledge, true and essential as it is, does not quite get us yet to the place we must be. Love completes the journey. To forego privileges of knowledge so as not to wound the weak conscience of a brother or sister, this is love. This is to be known by God.
When we meet a brother or sister today we receive each other in the love of God. And together we praise God for gifting us authentic life in Christ.
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