So what exactly is false knowledge, and what does it have to do with spirituality?

Answer 1

Technically there is no false knowledge! and it has nothing to do with spirit.

Answer 2

There are different definitions of knowledge. Head knowledge. Experiential knowledge. Spiritual knowledge.

False knowledge would be untrue knowledge of these types of knowledge. (False is lies.)

Head knowledge is learned by studying.
Experiential knowledge is learned by life experiences or hands on.
Spiritual knowledge is a word of knowledge divinely given from God and not learned by our own studies or experiences.

When spiritually given, studies have shown that the brain activity (that causes purposely control action) is less active. So it is actually God's knowledge.

Answer 3

I am in agreement with Joseph Campbell when it comes to mythology, religion and human spirituality. To quote from an interview he gave in the 80s,

"What you're learning in myth is about yourself as part of the being of the world. If it talks not about you, finally, but about something out there, then it's short. There's that wonderful phase I got from Karlfried Graf Durkheim, "transparency to the transcendent." If a deity blocks off transcendency, cuts you short of it by stopping at himself, he turns you into a worshipper and a devotee, and he hasn't opened the mystery of your own being."

Consequently, in my humble opinion, there is no such thing as false knowledge. Knowledge is knowledge. It simply is. The only time knowledge can be perceived as negative is if it stops you cold. In the case of religion, that would be stopping you at the foot of deity, blocking transcendency, so that you could move no further in your personal spiritual evolution. This denies you the full appreciation and understanding of the mystery of your own being. And taking that idea into our physical reality...

Would it not be like experiencing coitus interuptus? Yes. A base joke indeed but it makes the point!

Answer 4

False knowledge is that which is arrived at properly but is based on improper premise.

For example, X = "The sun is made of cream cheese", Y = "The walls of my office are purple and green."

Premise: IF X THEN Y.
X.
THEREFORE Y.

I can conclude, PERFECTLY LOGICALLY, that the walls of my office are purple and green. However, my eyes say they are cream white. What happened? The initial premise was wrong as was the statement of fact.

A fact, by the way, is not true or false by definition; rather, a fact is simply a one-idea statement that can possibly be disproven. I can observe the sun and immediately see that it is not cream cheese in composition, so the statement, "the sun is made of cream cheese" is a fact because it states one idea (composition of the sun) and it can be disproven (by observation). My desk fan is currently turned on. I make the statement, "My fan is on." This is a fact because it states one idea (the current status of my fan's operation) and it could be disproven by looking at it and finding that it was, in reality, off.

Answer 5

False knowledge has got to be ideas accepted as true, but in truth, are false .........lies!
2 Timothy 4:3,4 states:
"The time is coming when people won't listen to good teaching. Instead they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear. They will turn from the truth and eagerly listen to senseless stories."
I put forth that some of those 'senseless stories' are:
Hellfire
Trinity
Infallibility of the pope.

Answer 6

knowledge defines spirituality and its existence, purpose, and use. If this is false it can cause harm to oneself and others.

Answer 7

False knowledge is what the atheists go by.

Answer 8

Lies. Misleading Facts.
Like a TV preacher leading people down a wrong path.

Answer 9

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0402/biblefactquiz.html