Biblical Concept: Ignorance
Findings:
Ignorant worship.
Overcome your ignorance of Jesus Christ.
Ignorance unbelief relationship.
Sin ignorance relationship.
Foolish ignorance relationship.
Not ignorant of Satan.
Ignorant speculations.
High priests: Minister to the ignorant.
Saul: acted ignorantly in unbelief.
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NAS Acts 3:17 "And
now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did
also. (Peter to a gathered crowd, in the portico of Solomon, concerning
ignorant actions of the Jewish people toward Jesus Christ.) (Overcome your ignorance of Jesus Christ.)
NAS Acts 17:23 23
"For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your
worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What
therefore you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. (Ignorant worship.)
(See next.)
NAS Acts 17:30 30
"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring
to men that all everywhere should repent,
(Acts
17:22-34 22 And
Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,
"Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all
respects. 23 "For while
I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found
an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship
in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24
"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of
heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 neither is He served by human
hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and
breath and all things; 26 and
He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth,
having determined their appointed
times, and the boundaries of their habitation,
27 that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for
Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and
exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His
offspring.' 29 "Being
then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like
gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30 "Therefore having
overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere
should repent, 31 because He
has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man
whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from
the dead." 32 Now when
they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again
concerning this." 33 So
Paul went out of their midst. 34
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris
and others with them.) (Overcome your
ignorance of Jesus Christ.) (“All everywhere should repent” = an inclusive
offer of salvation to humanity.)
NAS Ephesians 4:18 being
darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the
ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; (Ephesians
4:17-25 17 This
I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer
just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their
understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is
in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become
callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every
kind of impurity with greediness. 20
But you did not learn Christ in this way,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him,
just as truth is in Jesus, 22
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self,
which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the
spirit of your mind, 24 and
put on the new self, which in the
likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the
truth. 25 Therefore, laying
aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of
you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.) (Humanity is fallen and cannot do anything
to deserve eternal salvation.) (Attitude of improvement is an important part of
the Christian’s life.) (Ignorance unbelief relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 9:7 but into
the second only the high priest enters, once a year, not without taking
blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed
in ignorance. (Sin ignorance relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 1:14 As
obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in
your ignorance, (Sin ignorance relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 2:15 For
such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of
foolish men. (Foolish ignorance relationship.)
NAS Ezra 7:25 "And
you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint
magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the
province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your
God; and you may teach anyone who is ignorant of them. (Artaxerxes to Ezra.)
NAS Psalm 73:22 Then I
was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before Thee. (Test of the
wicked prospering—read the whole Psalm.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 2:11
in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of
his schemes. (Not ignorant of Satan.)
NAS 2 Timothy 2:23 But
refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.
(Ignorant speculations.)
NAS Hebrews 5:2 he can
deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset
with weakness; (High priests: Minister to the ignorant.)
NAS 1 Timothy 1:13 even
though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. And
yet I was shown mercy, because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; (Saul: acted
ignorantly in unbelief.)