Who gets to decide which ideas are off limits?
In science you'd want to use the scientific method and reject appeals to faith.
Theology, while its foundational principles may be established on the basis of revelation such as scripture, often proceeds from foundational principles by logic.
Please explain how you proceed logically from the position that eating from the tree of knowledge is sin?
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This doesn't seem hard. Apologist hat on.
It wasn't the knowledge that was bad, it's that the knowledge was attained by doing what God said not to. Certainly, we can condemn things done in pursuit of knowledge - Mengele being probably the easiest example.
That hat fit kinda funny.
This is merely an interpretation (incidentally, of which all text requires). How do you know it is the correct one?
I interpreted fleitz (in the bit I quoted) as saying "if knowledge is bad, then we shouldn't be using logic to get us more knowledge, so the whole exercise is absurd." I was pointing out that there's at least one out.