Is it a sin to seek knowledge?

[Greatest I am]

Is it a sin to seek knowledge?

Is it a sin to want to open one’s eyes instead of being blind?

Is it a sin to do as scriptures urge us to do?

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Gen 3:2 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

Adam and Eve were doing exactly what we are all told by scriptures to do, yet God seemed quite upset.

Why is seeking knowledge and ignoring a vile command to remain in ignorant bliss wrong or a sin?

Are you sinning when you seek knowledge and becoming more like God?

Regards
DL

 

[Spellbound]

One can know about evil (lies and maladies) without being warped to do so. The knowledge of evil can twist us. Therefore, only the knowledge of good can save us. Knowledge of good is knowledge of truth. Not lies. I think that's what God meant by seeking knowledge.

 

[sideshowbob]

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Sarcasm.

 

[exchemist]

Is it a sin to seek knowledge?

Is it a sin to want to open one’s eyes instead of being blind?

Is it a sin to do as scriptures urge us to do?

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Gen 3:2 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

Adam and Eve were doing exactly what we are all told by scriptures to do, yet God seemed quite upset.

Why is seeking knowledge and ignoring a vile command to remain in ignorant bliss wrong or a sin?

Are you sinning when you seek knowledge and becoming more like God?

Regards
DL

First of all, it was not knowledge as such, but the knowledge of good and evil that was the issue in Genesis.

Secondly, as I'm sure I have pointed out before, the whole story - and the idea of "original sin" that arises from it - has to be read as an allegory, describing the ambivalent effects of Man losing his innocence as he developed moral awareness.

I do not believe many Christians or Jews today would seriously say that childlike innocence is a preferred state for an adult human being. But all of us know that loss of innocence entails a certain amount of regret.

 

[Randwolf]

I do not believe many Christians or Jews today would seriously say that childlike innocence is a preferred state for an adult human being.

Unless you want to get to Heaven of course...

Jesus’ response provides fundamental teaching on this matter. Inviting those around him to consider the little child in their midst, he said: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (see Matthew 18:1-4). Jesus pronounced the greatness of childlikeness.

“Except ye be converted” echoes a challenge to mortal efforts of self-will, pride, jealousy, and boasted intellect. Christian Science teaches plainly that conversion is the changing of one’s standpoint from a material to a spiritual basis of trust and reasoning.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary...ective/2012/0123/Finding-your-childlike-heart

 

[spidergoat]

Only if you are a lady-person.

 

[river]

Is it a sin to seek knowledge?

Is it a sin to want to open one’s eyes instead of being blind?

Is it a sin to do as scriptures urge us to do?

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Gen 3:2 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

Adam and Eve were doing exactly what we are all told by scriptures to do, yet God seemed quite upset.

Why is seeking knowledge and ignoring a vile command to remain in ignorant bliss wrong or a sin?

Are you sinning when you seek knowledge and becoming more like God?

Regards
DL

god does not want us to be aware ; hence god like

 

[StrangerInAStrangeLand]

Sin is disobeying god. Until some god shows up, there can be no sin.

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[river]

Sin is disobeying god. Until some god shows up, there can be no sin.

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Perhaps to you , but to those that believe , knowledge and more importantly thinking , is a sin . if not guided by this or that god.

 

[sculptor]

Let us sin, often and determinedly.

 

[exchemist]

Let us sin, often and determinedly.

Pecca fortiter, you mean.

Unless you want to get to Heaven of course...

Jesus’ response provides fundamental teaching on this matter. Inviting those around him to consider the little child in their midst, he said: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (see Matthew 18:1-4). Jesus pronounced the greatness of childlikeness.

“Except ye be converted” echoes a challenge to mortal efforts of self-will, pride, jealousy, and boasted intellect. Christian Science teaches plainly that conversion is the changing of one’s standpoint from a material to a spiritual basis of trust and reasoning.
​

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary...ective/2012/0123/Finding-your-childlike-heart

Yes but Christian Science is not Christianity, it's a fringe cult.

 

[Greatest I am]

One can know about evil (lies and maladies) without being warped to do so. The knowledge of evil can twist us. Therefore, only the knowledge of good can save us. Knowledge of good is knowledge of truth. Not lies. I think that's what God meant by seeking knowledge.

Can you know the good of a thing without knowing the evil of it as well?

The ancients nor I think so and that is why it is the tree of knowledge of good and evil and not a tree of good and another tree of evil.

I think evil is much broader than lies and maladies but we can argue that later.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Sarcasm.

Not to a theist.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

First of all, it was not knowledge as such, but the knowledge of good and evil that was the issue in Genesis.

Secondly, as I'm sure I have pointed out before, the whole story - and the idea of "original sin" that arises from it - has to be read as an allegory, describing the ambivalent effects of Man losing his innocence as he developed moral awareness.

I do not believe many Christians or Jews today would seriously say that childlike innocence is a preferred state for an adult human being. But all of us know that loss of innocence entails a certain amount of regret.

Jew never say Eden as a fall. To them Eden was where man was elevated as you seem to recognize.

To say that Christians think things went well would not be to follow their dogma of a fall and they still see Eden as where we inherited Original sin and lost eternal life.

Christians are not as bright as Gnostic Christians and Jews about such things.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Unless you want to get to Heaven of course...

Jesus’ response provides fundamental teaching on this matter. Inviting those around him to consider the little child in their midst, he said: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (see Matthew 18:1-4). Jesus pronounced the greatness of childlikeness.

“Except ye be converted” echoes a challenge to mortal efforts of self-will, pride, jealousy, and boasted intellect. Christian Science teaches plainly that conversion is the changing of one’s standpoint from a material to a spiritual basis of trust and reasoning.
​

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/A-Christian-Science-Perspective/2012/0123/Finding-your-childlike-heart

Children are so much easier to take advantage of and that is what religions are all about.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

god does not want us to be aware ; hence god like

True. Unaware people, like slaves, make the best slaves.

Paul said it. We are either slaves to sin or slaves to God.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Sin is disobeying god. Until some god shows up, there can be no sin.

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You forget Christianity's guy in the sky proxy God. BOO.

Oops. The word is woo.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Let us sin, often and determinedly.

You must be a follower of Martin Luther.
“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Pecca fortiter, you mean.


Yes but Christian Science is not Christianity, it's a fringe cult.

With the plethora of Christian denominations, cults and sects, all of Christianity can be called fringe cults I think.

Regards
DL

 

[Daecon]

Is it a sin to seek knowledge?

Is it a sin to want to open one’s eyes instead of being blind?

Is it a sin to do as scriptures urge us to do?

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Gen 3:2 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

Adam and Eve were doing exactly what we are all told by scriptures to do, yet God seemed quite upset.

Why is seeking knowledge and ignoring a vile command to remain in ignorant bliss wrong or a sin?

Are you sinning when you seek knowledge and becoming more like God?

Regards
DL

If God had meant for mankind to seek knowledge, She would have bestowed us with the intelligence required to develop fields of study such as science and mathematics.