The NAIVE Wins!

This past week in the class, many people chose (including me) to focus on the portrait in Proverbs of the naive.  I'm wondering why that was?  Maybe there is a part of us that longs for a time when we didn't know as much about the world and didn't catch all the innuendos and doomsday predictions.  Staying naive about what is evil could get one into trouble, however, we're told in Romans 16 that we're to be innocent of evil.  Maybe innocent and naive are not the same, but, to me there is some similarity.