Ignorance the mother of irreligion

[py3ak]

In "Faith and Life" (found in Selected Shorter Writings, vol. 1.) B.B. Warfield makes some remarks very necessary for people living in an anti-dogmatic age to hear:

Convictions are the root on which the tree of vital Christianity grows. No convictions, no Christianity. Scanty convictions, hunger-bitten Christianity. Profound convictions, solid and substantial religion. Let no man fancy it can be otherwise. Ignorance is not the mother of religion, but of irreligion. The knowledge of God is eternal life, and to know God means that we know him aright.​

 

[Wayne]

Related: Somewhere George Gillespie wrote that we ought to endeavor to seek as much of the will of God as we can discover.

[perhaps someone here can provide the otherwise lost citation]

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Nothing comes to my mind from just those words. Anything closer to a quotation?

Related: Somewhere George Gillespie wrote that we ought to endeavor to seek as much of the will of God as we can discover.

[perhaps someone here can provide the otherwise lost citation]

 

[Wayne]

I think it was something I read in his Miscellany Questions.

 

[MW]

I think it was something I read in his Miscellany Questions.

That sounds like it might come from the question on new light.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

From the opening, Miscellany Questions, Chapter 10,

For satisfaction in this difficulty, First of all, I do not deny, but most willingly yield, yea, assert, as a necessary truth, that as our knowledge (at its best in this world) is imperfect (for we know but in part), so it ought to be our desire and endeavour to grow in the knowledge of the mind of Christ, to follow on to know the Lord, to seek after more and more light, "For the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," Prov. 4.18.
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