(December 30, 2017 at 7:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 30, 2017 at 7:35 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Why? Their own holy book describes the inhabitants of the original paradise as completely ignorant and forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge.
If they believe that buy-bull is the word of gawd, or at least gawd inspired, then it would follow they find ignorance to be a virtue.
If God is to be found only in the Bible, then God is a figment of the imaginations of ancient desert dwellers. If God is a real presence in reality, then to study reality is to love God. Christians who will favor the Bible over a study of the actual evidence that God must have left writ all over the cosmos are doing nothing but ancestor worship-- they have no interest in a living God.
Don't scientists read? Scientists don't just walk outside and look up in the sky and say, "Wow, look at that." and now they're a scientist. Sure they study things in labs, and in the earth itself, etc. But they also read their scientific books. They also have to learn complicated math in certain sciences. So of course if someone is going to delve into a certain discipline, or to learn about a certain thing, part of that learning is going to include reading.
It wouldn't make sense for someone who wants to about God not to read the Bible, which tells us who He is and how He is. If you want to learn about God, and there's a book about God, it would make sense to read it. Not that's the information about God. Everything shows us something about God, but even with all the evidence in nature, it still wouldn't make sense not to read about Him in the Bible.
So no, God is not only found in the Bible, but He certainly is found in it.
And Adam and Eve were not completely ignorant of everything. Adam named all the animals. He had to have quite a vocabulary and a good deal of intelligence just to be able to do that. It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that they were forbidden to eat from, not just the tree of knowledge. That's a Luciferian teaching, that God didn't want Adam and Eve to gain knowledge and to remain in ignorance. And Lucifer in the form of the serpent freed them from their ignorance. But that's not how it was. Lucifer, who was Satan (being God's adversary, which is what "Satan" means) knew that they would die in the day they ate of it, because God said they would. He wasn't trying to free them from ignorance, he was trying to make sure they died.
God doesn't want us to be ignorant. You can read plenty of verses in the Bible that tell us not to be ignorant. Like this one.
2 Corinthians 2:10-12
10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 11 lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
And it also says that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of both knowledge and wisdom. There are many verses throughout the Old and New Testaments that tell us not to be ignorant, but to be wise, and to gain understanding, etc. But it does say not to be wise to do evil though.
1 Corinthians 14:20
20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
It wouldn't have mattered really what the command was. The point was that if they obeyed they would live, and if they disobeyed they would die. That's why Satan deceived the woman because he wanted her and Adam to eat of it and disobey God so that they would die.
