Dangerous knowledge

Posted October 20th @ 3:16 pm by Andy Print This Post

Al Mohler, talking about the North Korea/nukes situation, makes some good observations about the moral dimensions of knowledge. Knowledge of nuclear science, for example, requires us to make moral decisions about how to use or not use that knowledge. Can it ever be morally wrong just to know something? Our culture would tend to say no, but Mohler argues that there’s Biblical support for the concept of “forbidden knowledge.”

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logophilus
October 21, 2006 at 00:35

There is also support for the contrary position, in the words of Jesus Himself:

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
(Luke 8:17)

This would lead me to believe that eventually all things will be know. The knowledge of good and evil was only forbidden before the fall.