Reference: Science
Fausets
gnoosis, rather "knowledge falsely so-called" (1Ti 6:20). There was a true "knowledge," a charism or "gift" of the Spirit, abused by some (1Co 8:1; 12:8; 13:2; 14:6). This was counterfeited by false teachers, as preeminently and exclusively theirs (Col 2:8,18,23). Hence arose creeds, "symbols" (sumbola), i.e. watchwords whereby the orthodox might distinguish one another from the heretical; traces of such a creed appear in 1Ti 3:16; 2Ti 1:13-14.
The germs of the pretended gnoosis were not developed into full blown gnosticism until the second century. True knowledge (epignoosis, "full accurate knowledge") Paul valued (Php 1:9; Col 2:3; 3:10). He did not despise, but utilizes, secular knowledge (Php 4:8; Ac 17:28, etc.); and the progress made in many of the sciences as well as in the arts (as in that of design, manifested in the vases and other works of that description), was evidently very great.
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For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring.
And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge by the same Spirit,
And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you by a revelation, or by a knowledge, or by a prophecy, or by a doctrine?
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are reputable, if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, consider these things;
in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,
Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.
and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,
And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.
O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,
This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.
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Morish
Both in the Hebrew and in the Greek the words signify 'knowledge,' and are generally so translated. They are rendered 'science' only in Da 1:4, where 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' are also mentioned; and in 1Ti 6:20, where it is science, or knowledge, 'falsely so called,' doubtless alluding in Daniel to the speculations of the Magi, and in the Epistle to Timothy to the philosophers or Gnostic heretics, whose 'knowledge' had no real foundation.
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O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,