ingliz wrote:The lines of morality are not like ideal lines of mathematics. They admit of exceptions; they demand modifications. These exceptions and modifications are not made by the process of logic, but by the rules of prudence.Edmund Burke
Am I supposed to care about Mr. Burke's opinion for some reason?
ingliz wrote:Yes, but not your point.S eeking knowledge is but vanity and a striving after windforGreat is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.Psalm 145:3
Which is why you were wrong, because you didn't make the point I did, which is the correct one.
Scripture says elsewhere that a lack of knowledge is the basis for judgement (Hosea 4:6), and God rewards Solomon his desire for wisdom; thus, contradicting your juvenille interpretation.
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”
It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
1 Kings 3:9-14It seems like God likes knowledge quite bit actually; however, through this SAME man, King Solomon (the author of Ecclesiastes that you have so frequently quoted); God also warns that the striving after knowledge is vanity; it does not profit a man one day to his life; the only thing that truly and eternally profits a man is dedication to Almighty God.
Indeed, Solomon knew this well as He feel into idolatry and punishment from God himself in spite of his wisdom, for he fell-away from serving the Lord and was instead led astray by his foreign wives.