R.C. Sproul says it is evil to pit head knowledge against heart knowledge.
Hosea the prophet, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites , because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land” ( Hosea 4:1). The prophets were called by God to bring His covenant lawsuit against the nation Israel . At the beginning of his series of oracles (Hosea 4–14), Hosea summoned the nation to hear God’s charge against them. In Hosea 4:2, God charged them with breaking the Ten Commandments , mentioning cursing, murder, adultery, stealing, and lying. Not only were the people doing these evil deeds, but they were doing them repeatedly, so that “bloodshed followed bloodshed.” God was judging the land already by letting them experience the consequences of their behavior. The land was not yielding its produce, the people were wasting away, and even the animals were dying off (Hosea 4:3). The people w