Does intelligence correlate to moral character?

You said "According to this evil is the lack of wisdom." God said that the acquisition of wisdom (specifically the knowledge of good vs bad) was evil, and condemned the first man and woman for acquiring it. So the Bible effectively says the opposite of what you claimed.

 

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There's a gap in there: is knowledge of good and evil, the usual translation, or good vs bad there, "wisdom"?

In addition to the implications of some passages in the Christian Bible, several schools of Buddhism, Taoism, some animist traditions, Western philosophers such as Nietzsche, et al, have firmly asserted otherwise.

 

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Yes wisdom of good vs evil is conniving, either side is violent when they are suppose to be heavenly. Good vs evil is the undoing of the passive lover. Knowledge is okay, but good vs evil should be expelled from the imagination. All things are capeable and good. Hate is only the undoing of love, and ignorance is contstapated knowledge. Everything when whole is good.

 

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So someone who kills people who oppose him because he is unaware of the concept of good vs. evil is inherently better (more moral, better in the eyes of God) than someone who understands good vs evil, and refrains from killing because he feels it morally wrong?

 

I'm a pacifist. No way is violence inherently better than compassion!

 

So you have the wisdom to tell good from evil. Does that make you conniving and violent? Or does that knowledge - that compassion is inherently better than violence - make you a better person?

 

There is no good from evil, only good.

 

Kindness is more important than intelligence.
I always admire people who are kinder than I am.