Knowledge itself is not "good or evil"; rather using knowledge can be "good or evil" or neither (i.e. instrumental, pragmatic). — 180 Proof
Sure he did. He used it to cover his and Eve's 'nakedness' from Yahweh.Adam did not use the knowledge he gained before Yahweh evicted him from Eden. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
good and evil — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Sure he did. He used it to cover his and Eve's 'nakedness' from Yahweh. — 180 Proof
It must be Ialdaboath tricking them — schopenhauer1
It’s a really tough thing to look deep into our own sense of right and wrong rather than just blithely skirt around the difficulty of deciding where and when to draw the line. — I like sushi
if one is of the opinion that knowledge of good and evil are the highest temptations in god's arsenal. — TheMadFool
Why did god create them, or anyone for that matter, if he already knew the outcome? — GTTRPNK
If you accept that humans are not "bad" but in fact "selfish", you can see that, in fact, "good" is just a reflection of someone's selfish nature. So, in conclusion, good is unnecessary, but in order to exist as an option in life, selfishness is bound to exist. — Gus Lamarch
Or maybe like Nietzsche knowledge is "beyond good and evil" — prothero
It is what Adam fell for. He even ignored the tree of life.
I guess he recognized that life without an education was just not worth living.
As to our rebelling. All should rebel against those who would keep us dumbed down and stupid, which is what Yahweh tried and failed to do with A & E.
Some have used that knowledge to praise a genocidal Yahweh and the more moral have used it to condemn his sorry ass.
Regards
DL — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Knowledge is useless unless you act on it. Also, good and evil is just one's conditioning. Something that is good is evil to another. So in a nutshell, perceptions are reality. — Ugesh
Where does it say that?As scriptures say, he was mentally and morally blind without it. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Is the knowledge of good and evil, good or evil? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Where does it say that? — tim wood
knowledge is power, power can be wielded for good and for evil. So it's neither and it's both, not necessarily one or the other. Good and evil are not determined by what we know or think we know, but instead by how we choose to act. — Tomseltje
And where does it say that? "Where" means where. — tim wood
of the many Christian fairy tale for adults — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Is the knowledge of good and evil, good or evil? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Why are you so concerned with fairy tales? — tim wood
The Hebrew ( עֵ֕ץ הַדַּ֖עַת ט֥וֹב וָרָֽע) clearly indicates an "and" between the Hebrew words good and evil. — Hanover
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