Caution is required when we are satisfied in discovering knowledge of ourselves and our world, that we are learning “truth”, and reject Jesus as the way, the only way. In this category are people who come to church once in a while but refuse to commit and prefer to visit different truth centres and think about matters of truth.
Whether these people found “enlightenment”, we rarely hear from them. For the few who have claimed to have done so, we carry out pilgrimage to their holy sites, or undergo activities that they did on their way to find truth. The “wheel of knowledge” might be an attractive one, but as we cycle along on the wheel, we are growing in “knowledge” in perhaps similar journey to those who journeyed this way tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago. One potential fallacy is that we are re-visiting the wheel, we are not on an undisdovered journey. The second potential fallacy is that at some point we need the knowledge to get out of this cycle because the person who journeyed on this wheel:
- did not find enlightenment, or
- at least they did not say they had found it, or
- that they claimed they found it but it’s not the enlightenment we want, or
- we don’t agree their enlightenment has the kind of benchmark that stands the test we set.
Caution then, as we reflect on our journey of our wheel of knowledge, are we falling in the trap of “re-inventing the wheel” where there was only one wheel? To what extent we need that something to “tick all the boxes”, to satisfy all our conditions, before we acceot that it is truth?
