Don't Know - An Important Lesson Learned

In a moment of reflection on my life I came to an interesting life lesson characterized by the simple phrase "Don't know".

The lesson that I learned is simply this, that it is ok to not know everything and also if you don't know something it is alright to simply say "I don't know that".

For so many people, me before learning this, there has to be an answer to all questions and there must be a yes/no answer to all issues, grey areas or "don't knows" were either compromises or worse, denial of truth.

The "don't know" lesson is important to what my beloved rabbi calls the "census of the redeemed" or it's opposite "the census of hell".

Both in the Church and among the Jewish Missions culture the answer to the question of the eternal destiny of all people, including the Jewish People is a settled issue, that being all non-Yeshua believers are categorically in the "census of hell" and are without hope and without G-d in this world and in the next. This is a settled issue and anyone who is not ready to answer unequivocally that all Jews who do not/did not embrace Yeshua as Messiah are damned are somehow unfaithful to the Bible and to G-d and also that these people are or may be espousing "dual covenant" theology.

I think that it is important to realize that all knowledge of G-d's dealings are in His hands and though we are given some insight into G-d's work, there are things that we don't know and I will say the mystery of how G-d distributes the merit of Yeshua's death is one of those issues. We do know that all who come to eternal life enter by Yeshua's sacrifice and that by explicit faith trust in Yeshua there is assurance of atonement, but there is more to the issue of the atonement that I think we do not know fully in how and to whom this new life is distributed.

So then we can and in some cases must say "don't know" on some important issues knowing that there are areas where G-d has not fully revealed His full plan to us, yet know that He is in charge of all things and will do that which is right.

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