Destroyed by Pure Knowledge?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by NotforSale

Do you mind expounding a little? There is so much to this.

What really intrigues me is how simplicity brings peace, and knowledge complicates, at least in the extreme/pure measure. If I read Genesis correctly, God tried to keep man from the "Know", allowing him to live in a state that was enough, and simple.

Even Jesus said, "Take no thought for the morrow", but that's all we do as people. We worry, store up, and break our backs for the morrow because we “Know”. Another thing Jesus said, "Except ye become as this little child". Was this the initial state of Man in the Garden? The state of innocence.

Our World is full of technology (inventions, machines, ect) that are designed to make the Earth a better place to live. Is this really true? Is our age of extreme understanding leading us down a road of peace?

Religion is not exempt. We know more than we've ever known, but are we better off? People seem more confused than they've ever been. Agreement is a million miles from being reached, and our hearts can seem so empty amidst all of this information.

As soon as we settle a score, another door opens. Someone has new insight, a new revelation. It just seems we were not meant to handle the deeper meanings of things, only because we are so limited, God never intending for Man know as much as he does.

I'm not convinced that knowledge of itself is evil. Though I think many times the way in which knowledge is pursued can be evil. I think knowledge is a good thing and not to be refused. Knowledge neither makes the world better or worse in my opinion. Knowledge simply is the medium through which men choose to do good or evil. Though knowledge often leads to more questions and the answers to those lead to even more.

What is amazing to me is that some things are unknowable. Some things can even be proven to be unknowable. There are some of these kinds of proofs in mathematics... Proofs that tell us no general solution of certain things can be reached even though we have proven that every one of those things actually have a solution.

I do agree on religion. That the more the bible is studied the more the christian religion forms factions. I don't think this has to do with knowledge in general but I think it reveals a problem with using the bible as a solo guide to religious knowledge.

I don't think Jesus was teaching about us forsaking responsibilities. I think he was trying to get us to live in a such a way that we would behold the world in wonder and enjoy it and not to constantly worry and think about every little thing because worry doesn't really do anything for us.