14/08/2026
Ignorance is one of the great breeding grounds of spiritual error. When people do not know Scripture, they become vulnerable to almost anything that sounds spiritual, emotional, confident, or religious.
God Himself said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). Paul warns that believers must grow so that we are no longer “tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4:14).
Error rarely announces itself by saying, “I am falsehood.” It usually comes wrapped in familiar Christian language. It quotes verses. It speaks about Jesus. It may sound loving, powerful, or profound. That is why ignorance is so dangerous. A person who does not know the truth has very little ability to recognize a counterfeit.
This is also why biblical knowledge is not intellectual pride. We study because souls are at stake. The Bereans were praised because they were “examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11).
But knowledge alone is not enough either. A person can know many verses and still twist them through pride, tradition, or sinful desire. We need both knowledge and humility before the Word.
The safest Christian is not the one who trusts his instincts, his favourite teacher, or his denomination. It is the believer who keeps returning to Scripture and is willing to be corrected by it.
Many errors survive simply because too few Christians know their Bibles well enough to recognise them.