{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Weird Stuff in the Bible","title":"Forbidden Knowledge of the Watchers | Enoch 7-8","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1940,"description":"I watched a lot of School House Rock growing up, which means I learned that knowledge is power.But that doesn’t mean that all knowledge is good. In fact, too much knowledge can be a very very bad thing. The Bible shows us that some knowledge is forbidden.In Romans 16:19 (NKJV), Paul writesFor your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.What does it mean to be simple? In one sense, to be simple means to be dumb. To not know anything. And why would God’s Word tell us to be dumb? Aren’t there entire books of the Bible written to make us wiser?But there are some things you simply don’t have to know. It’s OK not to know what it’s like to be high on drugs. It’s OK not to know what it’s like to be blackout drunk. It’s OK not to know what the horoscope in the newspaper says about your day. It’s OK to be simple concerning evil.In fact, there are some forms of knowledge that are actually forbidden for mankind. Things that God has said humans are better off not knowing. Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.Right there, the Scripture draws an epistemological boundary. It says some types of information belong to God, and therefore some knowledge is not ours to pursue.Now, why is all this relevant? Because the Book of Enoch shows how in the pre-flood world, the Watchers or Sons of God descended to the earth and not only created the giants, but also shared forbidden knowledge with the humans of that day.Not false knowledge. Forbidden knowledge. Things humans were not meant to know. Things that have a domino effect all throughout the rest of the Biblical story, including all the way into future prophecy in the book of Revelation.Which I find to be weird, and I’d like to explore what it shows us about our Bible. Turn to Genesis 6, and let’s...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2OD1n6QGBajetfmRHV4TWwGmVPGvhPvbMIPPDewrngY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ2MDcwLzE2OTcz/NDE0NjktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}