Knowledge That Directly Opposes Godliness
(The mind and conscience are defiled. This is the work of Satan to lead the soul from any real consciousness of God to material knowledge only.)
Titus 1:14-16
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and
Allurements Of Those Who Live In Error
II Pet 2:18
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Science – Knowledge: Falsely So Called
II Tim 3:7
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
I Tim 6:20
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
The Corruption Of Worldly Learning
(Corruption of worldly learning is through the lust of the natural mind. This can take on a lust for knowledge of its own making and it will become a form of worship.)
II Pet 1:4
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
I Tim 6:3-5
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
II Tim 2:16
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
II Tim 4:4
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Definitions
Knowledge
Dictionary: Knowledge, a knower, or expert, perceive, be resolved, understand.
Babblings
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Empty sounding, fruitless discussion, noise, sound or voice.
Surmisings
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Suspicion, conjecture, to think under, privately suppose, deem.
Railings
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Vilification, blasphemy, evil speaking, calumnious against men, impious, against God, to hinder, injure, hurt.
Jangling
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Random talk, idle senseless or mischievous talker, a wrangler, empty, profitless, idle, vain.
Fables
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: A tale, fiction, myth.