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Neat switch from knowledge to technologyWell, it sounds like I am not communicating the point. I have not advocated that we stop anything in particular. I think many technologies are going to end in disaster because they are not pursued with Godly guidance. Is that speculative? Sure. Its based uopn my religious beliefs. I understand that for many its a lot to swallow, but I am not shy. I do have scripture to rely upon for the point however.
Well, agreed. People generally misuse knowledge. People even more generally put the use of knowledge over seeking the Lord for direction in how to use it.
Knowledge may indeed be neutral, but not in certain hands. Like political power.
The point is [] whether knowledge is something people can handle, or how much they can handle.
What is the practical consequence? If the entire world would just listen to me (yes, I am being tongue in cheek), no technology would be pursued apart from the desire to glorify God. There would be no cross-contamination by genetically engineered seeds, no weather modification, no experimentation on aborted children, no economic enslavement by market manipulation, no nuclear war.
The point is simple enough that this a corporate problem for humanity as a species.
The fact is that more technology is more capability to destroy all life on this planet, create famines, etc., etc.
If you are saying is that all knowledge is a two-edged sword with capacities for good and evil, that is just stating a truism.
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But let us not confuse that with the project of acquiring knowledge in the first place as if it was the character of the information that led it to be used for good or ill.
I've only heard the word "cud" used to refer to regurgitated food in ruminants.
Not to mention cure cancer, eradicate infectious disease, and increase quality of life.The fact is that more technology is more capability to destroy all life on this planet, create famines, etc., etc.
with good technology comes bad. And some seemingly evil technology can be used for good if you are resourceful enoughNot to mention cure cancer, eradicate infectious disease, and increase quality of life.
Sure, some people may use the knowledge they have gained to do evil. But the problem isn't with knowledge itself -- it's with the people who abuse it. Do you not agree?
Advocating the supression of knowledge, as you and HypoTypoSis appear to be doing but won't admit to, would put an end to even good advancements like the ones listed above. You may argue that this is not what you are advocating, in which case, I would ask: What are you then disagreeing with the rest of us about???
the problem isn't with knowledge itself -- it's with the people who abuse it. Do you not agree?
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it
No. Because (once again) the verse you cited doesn't support your point that knowledge is necessarily a bad thing. Eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad thing, but not knowledge itself. If knowledge is inherently bad, then you must also think that God created a bad thing by planting that tree in the Garden.God would seem to disagree with you. Wouldn't you agree?
Advocating the supression of knowledge, as you and HypoTypoSis appear to be doing but won't admit to, would put an end to even good advancements like the ones listed above. You may argue that this is not what you are advocating, in which case, I would ask: What are you then disagreeing with the rest of us about???
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it
God would seem to disagree with you. Wouldn't you agree?
I'll say! Thank goodness gluadys was here to correct you!obviously, we have proof positive that it is far too easy for the scripturally unlearned to post verses and not know the first thing of wherein or why they speak.
Spoken like a true a 25 year old teenager.I'll say! Thank goodness gluadys was here to correct you!
It doesn't change the fact that it was a decision by default since His original command was NO-do NOT eat.knowledge.
It doesn't change the fact that it was a decision by default since His original command was NO-do NOT eat.
You are not being very clear there HypoTypoSis. What was a decision by default, whose decision was it, why was it by default, and why do you see that as significant?It doesn't change the fact that it was a decision by default
You are going way beyond the meaning of that passage. God did not forbid Adam from knowledge, he was forbidden from eating from a specific tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge. Interesting that you take a metaphorical interpretation of eating from the tree, but unfortunately it is a metaphorical interpretation that contradicts everything God says about knowledge in the rest of the bible as glaudys has poited out to you.His original command was NO-do NOT eat.
You owe me a new ironometer!obviously, we have proof positive that it is far too easy for the scripturally unlearned to post verses and not know the first thing of wherein or why they speak.
You mean we are required to know of the heart and mind of God? How then can knowledge be a bad thing. And if you see your way to answering my questiong regarding Paul in Acts 17 that would be great.How can anyone take all the ways of the world and mix it with God's Word and say they know the heart and mind of God when scripture plainly states the temple of God has no fellowship with the temple of idiots?
No, they should not be confused.
Yes, it is in many ways a truism.
Biblically, however, there is nothing "neutral."
1Cr 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Why? Why not just be a brilliant scientist and forget about God, or ignore him six days a week? Isn't that just as valid if you are brilliant enough?
Cr 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
The notion that some knowledge is "neutral" is the notion that it has intrinsic significance apart from God. There is no such thing, but only vain imagination of such things. Knowledge is not per se good. It has no intrinsic value in and of itself.
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