Primitive Knowledge

Psalms 137-139

Too often I have heard people speak of how much more intelligent we are now than our ancestors... how our knowledge has superseded their knowledge... not just adding to it, but making it obsolete. To some extent, they look down upon this primitive knowledge with an arrogance that would throw out everything known by our ancestors as mistaken thinking while embracing everything we know now as perfect truth. How easily they forget the truths of the last decade that have been trumped, or the truths of the previous century that have come 'round again.

The psalmist speaks of some of these ancient truths of the creation of a child in terms that many modern thinkers should revisit. Instead, in their attempt to rid themselves of a moral law-giver, they would strip the psalmist of his truth and claim a purely biological cause (without ever stopping to consider whence biology came). The psalmist may not have had the detailed medical knowledge of today's OBs, but his incomplete knowledge was rooted in the same truths... truths that God instantiated in the beginning.