person experiences initial illumination—but he does not stop there. He goes on to speak of the fruit of conversion, the illumined convictions that he calls “knowledge.” When Paul says that God gives “the light of the knowledge,” he is not talking about bookish academic knowledge; rather, he is speaking of what a person in the deepest part of his or her being now affirms as unequivocally true. This person now possesses deep heartfelt certainty regarding biblical truth. The “knowledge” or conviction