My point was that your claim that the biblical God wants to keep people ignorant is unsupported by the Genesis narrative. If you are offended by the possibility of an all-knowing, higher Being, with more wisdom than we messed up humans, caring enough to warn us of consequences to our actions that we may not be aware of (or are willfully ignorant of), then I suppose you’ll be offended.
Here we go again. If people would actually read the Genesis account instead of getting their “theology” from comic strips, they would know that the forbidden fruit was not “knowledge” but “the knowledge of good and evil”. Man had only known good before this point. There was no “magic apple”. It was a simple act of willful disobedience that brought evil into human nature. The Bible isn’t a compilation of mystical explanations of natural phenomena, but an examination of the woeful state of human nature.
A decade is any period of 10 years. If you start with A.D. 1 then 2020 is the last year of the 202nd decade. but if you’re referring to the ’20’s, you mean the 10 years from 2020 through 2029.
If he’s right, and he pretty much is, we’re all in deep trouble. “We all sin. We all fall short” – St. Paul “Like sheep, we’ve all gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way, but the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all.” – Isaiah
“Good” Christians are repentant sinners who realize they are no “better” than anybody else. Self righteous church-goers are hypocrites who have missed the whole point of the gospel.
My point was that your claim that the biblical God wants to keep people ignorant is unsupported by the Genesis narrative. If you are offended by the possibility of an all-knowing, higher Being, with more wisdom than we messed up humans, caring enough to warn us of consequences to our actions that we may not be aware of (or are willfully ignorant of), then I suppose you’ll be offended.