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Originally Posted by awareness
These kinds of songs inspire peace about not knowing. And peace about not knowing is a very good thing. May we all have it.
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We need to recognize when we don't know, which is in itself a kind of knowing. But, we don't have to be at peace with our ignorance. To be at peace with it is to resign ourselves to a kind of intellectual death. Better to stay with the tension between ignorance and knowledge which is our true epistemological situation. To me these two hymns express that tension because while they promise ultimate knowledge in the by and by, they don't deliver it. Only God can do that.