What I have realised since I became a Christian 25 years ago, is that as time passes, I actually know less and less each day.
:D Specifically NOT saying anything about this quote... :D
The change that comes from making such decisions has, IMO, little to do with anything outside one's self. Sometimes just finding a place to 'stand' gives us more power to deal with things. It can be confusing to not know things, to not even know which choices are valid, and to see the world is uncontrollable for an individual. So finding a place to anchor can be a powerful tool and gives us a direction to view the world from.
Unfortunately, it also leaves us open to manipulation if the 'rock' top which we anchor is attached to someone else rather than firmly embedded in a reality. When that someone else moves, so do we. When that someone else tells us that all is lost unless we... (whatever) then we kind of have to do it or lose our hard-won stability.
I'm just not sure stability is a good thing for a human. IMO that 'stability' and the desire for it is because we are incorrectly positioned to live a life by our upbringing and our schooling. Schools are to program good little consumers, and when needed, nice obedient cannon fodder, and to populate a society with people who all think alike, or at least within very proscribed boundaries of the same views.
It makes us easier to predict and manipulate.
We are deliberately not given knowledge of what makes a human. We don't even get knowledge of how the money system works, ensuring very few ever get ahead enough to move in the ultra-rich cicles unless they are born into it. That's why most of the ultra-rich families intermarry - they do not want someone from the lower ranks suddenly getting access to the knowledge they grow up with and maybe sharing it around.
After all, it is impossible for ANYONE to be rich (or ultra-rich) unless many someone's at the bottom of the pyramids are NOT being paid true value for their work.
Choosing to know by believing is, again IMO, not a good way to sort the issues of complexity that life throws at us. Better is to learn more effective ways to view things; learn to see the basics instead of filtering what can be known.
Not attacking, OK? Just the view of someone who 'found Jesus' as a child and then grew out of it.