But does not God give knowledge?
2 Chron 1:11-12(a) : 11 God said to Solomon, "Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, riches or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, 12 therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. ...
Prov 1:7 : The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Prov 2:6 : For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
***But does not God give knowledge?***
There is still the difference between belief and knowledge. God may inspire me to develop the final Grand Unified Theory so that I may have knowledge of the math, but my relationship with Him is belief.
St. Thomas again...
Prov 1:7 : The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Prov 2:6 : For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Amazing that you furnish clear Scripture which says God gives knowledge and understanding and wisdom, and still some are blind to it.
As God wills.
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." -- Colossians 3:9-11"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Perhaps some don't believe in the gift because they have not been given the gift.