Are christians allowed to seek knowledge?

Question

If knowledge is power and God is omnipotent (knows everything) that makes God all powerful.
But God cast out Satan for wanting to be like Him.

If a person seeks knowledge, aren't they trying to be like God? Even if one says they seek knowledge to better themselves; to what extent? Isn't the goal of seeking knowledge complete understanding - ie. omnipotence?

So if wanting to be like God is sinful, then basically the Bible is telling christians not to seek knowledge right? Because you aren't supposed to want to be God.

I guess this would give reason to christians rejecting science. Maybe they just don't want to be like satan.

Answer 1

I don't think christians are permitted to seek knowledge. That would eventually lead them to question their own faith.

I mean, think about it. It has been proven over and over that the higher the education, the higher the IQ and the higher the intelligence, the less likely someone is to be religious.

Answer 2

Man is curious by nature. To deny this nature is wrong. Many people have died seeking knowledge such as the Curies, but people keep searching, experimenting, trying new things. A body of facts began to be amassed. This led to more discoveries and will continue until something bans science, logic, debate and reasoning as was the case up to a couple of hundred years ago. The quest for knowledge is not wrong. It is different than wanting to be like God. Science has always been a threat to religions because it provides alternatives that the holy people cannot control. Knowledge is truth. If your religion is hiding the truth it is time to start looking abound and asking questions. Blind faith is nothing special or new. Religions demand it just like the Nazis did. Do you honestly believe that you are right and most of the other people on the world are wrong? The religion hang up is easily answered by the fact that religions need God. God doesn't need religions.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with knowledge but Satan tried to overthrow God. Everyone must obey him and he is the only God. God wants us all to be like him but he doesn't want us trying to overthrow him. There is a difference. Knowledge is a good thing and God wants us to seek it and have it. Knowledge is not the most powerful thing though, love is and God is love. I think science is a gift from God and Heaven. I believe that science as well as the Bible was divinely inspired except the parts saying there was no creation and no God.

Answer 4

No you have it all wrong. Satan wanted to be God. He wanted ALL the worship and ALL the praise. We on the other hand just want to serve God and worship him. And Adan and Eve's sin was not listening to God and thinking they knew better than him. The bible tells us to seek the knowledge as God as you would for hidden treasures. So yes Christians are encouraged to seek knowledge, and to gain it.

Answer 5

First Satan was not kicked out of heaven until Jesus took over as king. Rev.12:7-12. If you remember the account of Job. Satan was talking to God. So he was still aloud to go to heaven when he wanted to. That's why in Rev. 12:12 it says "woe to the earth" He is no longer aloud in heaven. He can now spend all his time hear on earth trying to get as many people as he wants. Satan wanted people to worship him. He wanted some of the glory he didn't believe in Gods Sovereignty. This is much deeper and has to do with much more then knowledge..
Hope this helps some

Answer 6

You are doing just what the bible prophesied unbelievers would do in the last days..."Ever learning, but never coming to a knowledge of truth."
Christians are instructed to take the yoke (knowledge) of Jesus upon themselves and learn of him. We are also told to study to show ourselves approved, a workman who need not be ashamed (unknowledgable) rightly dividing (using) the word of truth.
We are heirs of God through the blood adoption by the sacrifice of Jesus. We think it not robbery to claim our inheritance and strive to be just like him. That is also scripture.
Satan sought to take over heaven. Christians seek to join Jesus there and have a blessed assurance that what we seek has already been done! At the appointed time it will be so. God is not a man that he should lie.
May you learn the word of God and accept him someday before your time ends and it is too late for you. "Now faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God!" Read the bible to understand the bible. You are too wise in your own conceit. It will get you noplace with God.

Answer 7

You are very incorrect on your assumptions in this one. Christians, at least in my faith, are not only allowed, but are encouraged to seek as much knowledge as they can, in all areas, both men and women alike.

Satan was not cast out because he wanted to be "like" God, but because he wanted to be greater than God, or receive all the glory. God/Jesus have specifically commanded mankind that they should seek to be like them or perfect (although they realize this is impossible because mankind is imperfect and because of free agency will make errors). So, to seek to be like God is a great thing, whether it's through education or spiritual means. It is in no way sinful. Because Christians value education, in all realms, they also value science. Science in no way conflicts with religion, or at least it shouldn't. It surely doesn't conflict with mine. In the end, we aren't trying to avoid becoming like satan, but are attempting to be more like God. (Like I said, you basic assumption was wrong).

Answer 8

My basic view of the church-

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You must be a knee-jerk reactionary bible thumper to be a "good" christian!
Knowledge is heresy!
You are only allowed to know what your pastor or preacher tells you- anything else is blasphemy!

Remember Galileo, who put forth the "ridiculous" idea that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system? The Church wanted to excommunicate him for such "heresy".

I once got kicked out of Vacation Bible School (Southern baptist thing) for questioning Noah's Ark and the Flood mythology.

I asked-

So this guy, with out the benefit of modern cranes or power tools somehow managed to build essentially a floating barn, stock it with all animals by two, and float around around for 40 dayd and 40 nights until the ark ended up several miles up on mountain?

Never mind that a very small fraction of the total biological diversity on this planet could have fit on such an ark.

Never mind that somehow, in a VERY short span of time, these few animals managed to mutate (evolve) into precisely matched organisms to their particular biological niche.

Never mind that several animals that could neither SWIM or FLY managed to make it tens of thousands of miles to where they currently reside, AND managed to not die on the way and leave evidence of such a migration?

Never mind that the total volume of water on this PLANET would't bring the ocean level up more than a few hundred feet, FAR short of the MILES of water depth it would require to park a ship miles up on a mountain.

Never mind that "evidence of the ark" was found on a glacier, which always travels DOWN, was several miles up in elevartion, further raising the imopssibility of it ever happening to sheer impossible?

Never mind that "the promise to never flood the earth", (a rainbow), never happened, because refraction of light into rainbows didn't occur until after the flood?

The massive amount of evidence against this tale raises it from a child's fantasy to sheer BS.

The preacher squrimed when I asked these questions and tried to change the subject. My estimation of what the church "knows" went from mere skepticism to outright scorn.

True, verifiable scientific knowledge and the church are at odds with each other and neither is compatible with each other.

Science deals with the real, verifiable world and religion deals with comfortable mythology.

Answer 9

Keep reading: it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, i.e., seeking to know and define what is right. Only God defines what is right, or truth. Reaching for this tree makes one become like a god, but only in the illusion of the mind, and separates one from the real God, the only source of life. Enter death. (I still need knowledge to do practical things).

Answer 10

God is omniscient. There is no way any human could know absolutely everything. Getting a degree or two won't even begin to give one the knowledge that God has.

Answer 11

Absolutely right. One of the many reasons I turned my back to xianity. I was talking to a few ladies the other day about this very thing, and they said "Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing". What they meant was, you cannot "question" god. If that isn't brainwashing, WHAT IS? "Satan" was just a ploy, also, to get people to stay in "the church". Read and find out. Knowledge is everything.