By: Robert Serreyn
QUESTION… In 2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 7, What does it really mean by “Always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth”.
2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
ANSWER: This verse is describing the spiritual condition of the world (people) at the end of the Church Age.
As we draw closer to the end of the Church Age (the time we are living in now) just before the rapture (1 Thess. 4:16,17 & 1 Cor. 15:51,52) of all of the saved (people who have believed in Christ by trusting in ONLY his Death, Burial, and Ressurection as the complete payment for their sins as the ONLY WAY to heaven) takes place, people (the world) will be “Ever (Always) learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”.
ALWAYS (Ever) LEARNING… is refering to the fact that as this Church Age that we are living in now draws closer to a close people will SEEK AFTER what they precieve as “Spiritual Truth”. Some will seek it from a church, others from a cult, many by occult, and a few will seek none (they are called Athiest, and Agnostics) but it will not be from the truth of God’s Word called The Bible.
Currently there are 4200 (hundred) different MAN MADE religions with their own way in how to reach “Eternal Bliss” or heaven. but, NOT ONE of them will lead a person to the Word Of God known as the Bible.
NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH… Out of ALL of the 4200 (hundred) known religions in the world not one WILL NEVER lead a person in faith alone in Jesus Christ alone as the complete payment for their sins. A person will get 4200 (hundred) different ways to rid their sin, BUT ALL will lead and be IN ERROR.
In CONCLUSION:
When man (people) seek so called “spiritual truth” from any source other than from God’s Word, that person will in the end, end up in a spiritual train wreak. Be sure to know that Satan and his army of demons (fallen angels – Gen. 6:4) will FILL UP (Always Learning) their minds with any kind of religious garbage that they can as long as it is not from God’s Word and MOST IMPORTANTLY the truth of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) (NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH) how that Jesus Christ DIED on the cross, was BURIED in a grave, and RESURRECTED from the dead as the complete payment for their sins and by simple belief (Acts 16:31, John 3:16) in that RESULTS IN Everlasting Life in heaven with him.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to know IS Jesus Christ as YOUR savior, just simply believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross and DIED and shed his blood, was BURIED and three days later RESURRECTED from the dead to pay for your sins – See 1 Cor. 15:1-4.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved – Acts 16:31
The moment that you do, YOU HAVE (at that second and forever) Everlasting Life which WILL NEVER be taken away no matter what.
John 10:28-29 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
-Christ DIED for you – Romans 5:8
-Christ PAID your sins in full – 2 Corinthians 5:21,1 Peter 2:24
-BELIEVE (Trust In Completely) in Christ ALONE as the complete payment of sin for salvation – John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Ephesians 2:8,9
“For the wages(payment) of sin is death (eternal torment in hell); but the GIFT(salvation) of God is eternal life THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 6:23
IT IS THAT SIMPLE – THE GOSPEL TRUTH