Colossians 2
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
KJV .. context
Greek philosophers were just terrible. Everything they taught, especially the maniac Democritus, contradicts God's revelation in which knowledge and wisdom are perfected. I do not cherry pick verses that make me feel I'm walking in the air or whatever it is Episcopalians feel like and Zoroastrians so you will find in the context link—well, perhaps you're already aware of this but heathens also check the site and I am happy to post Scripture for them—that wisdom and knowledge are specifically mentioned.
1 9b all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
16a For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible
2 2b-3 the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Obviously I do not intrude opinions and I don't need to. God spells it out here in words of one syllable so that even a child could understand it. Half baked secularists such as the Archbishop of Canterbury—or even Democritus but he was fully cooked of course—spout off garbage at so-much-per-word
(and a couple of free palaces fro the Archbishop) such as
there is a difference between the spiritual values of Christians (or Parsees) and the material values of science but whooooooooops!! did the Anglicans forget to tell God who does distinguish between the two AND INCLUDES BOTH? It's not
some wisdom it's
all wisdom which is differentiated from spiritual understanding sure, even in the same verse, and
spiritual understanding is
included.
God, in explaining about Creation, specifies
all things not only heavenly things but earthly things too. Not only visible things but invisible things too. Not to enable a half baked watered cown assurance of fudgement but
the full assurance of understanding and unlike Democritus with his infinite voids and granular motions through minimum dimensions God spells it out very clearly that in Him are
all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
And that is why philosophy relies on indoctrination: what rational adult knowing The Truth could ever accept mumbojumbo, whether concentrated (Democritus) or in its diluted form (Canterbury)? Whether a child has read up on quantum theory or not, any child knows what "all" means and that is the type of Knowledge described BY GOD in The Bible. When atheism re-emerged during the 17th century, for example with Spinoza, the Greek philosophies which had been shut down for over a millennium also re-emerged. And almost exactly from where they had left off.
The results of that castrophe are seen all around us.
Secular values.
Philosophies.
Vain deceits.God knew that would happen.
God warned us.Indeed it is so explicit that comment or opinion is altogether unnecessary but I am happy to post Scripture.