Belief is not the same as Knowledge

First, the term believe comes from the concept of “loving an idea.” To belove an idea made the symbol believe. When you are asked to believe something you are being asked to belove the idea being planted in your mind.

The difference between believing something and knowing something can be as wide as the difference between having a glass of poisonous water and a glass of pure water to choose from. Both glasses look like they contain drinkable water, right? To lose the meaning of what it means to believe is to lose the ability to tell the difference between belief and knowledge. It is to lose the meaning of what it means to be ‘ignorant’.

Knowledge is about the way reality is, it states reality-as-it-is. Knowledge is about facts and the many truths. Belief is about the Truth, an absolute way about the way the world is as told -- by someone else. Belief is dangerous.

Ignorance and (the amount of) intelligence (one has) are often purposely made out to be the same thing. Not believing (in something) has often been called ignorance, soon translated as having ‘an insufficient mind’. The basic belief in belief is that you have to believe in something and someone to give you guidance to live “the right way.”

Here again, this is the circular argument that too many people do not recognize as being false. Belief in falsehoods begets more belief in falsehoods. People ‘believe’ (belove the idea) that they have “to believe” the Truth to live “the right way.”

The Truth has nothing to do with knowledge. Knowledge is about the millions of facts and the millions of truths about the what, how, where, when of reality-as-it-is. Reality has billions of cause and effect relationships that we must put together correctly. The basis of truths expands intelligence, builds knowledge and accumulates wisdom.