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The lecturer states she “would contend that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
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I agree that to truly love wisdom you must believe in God as creator and knowing Him as the author of life is knowing God through growing in wisdom of His Word, the Bible. It is more than believing, it is walking in relationship with Jesus, gaining Wisdom from God’s Word helps us to love wisdom and grow in our faith. If a person doesn’t believe in God, their wisdom is only worldly wisdom, which does not come from God, but the world, which is of evil.
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I agree because we have the Holy Spirit to light up understanding where our sinful selves only exist to serve self. With Jesus changing our hearts and lives, our minds are also changed and we can accept wisdom that serves up hard truths, not just tolerant “love” of the day.
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Yes and No, a non-believer made in the image of God can be living according to God’s wisdom without understanding of what that means as shown in Scripture and Jesus’ life. They could be living a life informed by natural revelation to some extent. But a believer who has the Holy Spirit, who life is informed by the Scriptures, and is empowered to live like Wisdom personified Jesus is blessed with more ability to live the way God created us to live and thus love wisdom they way God intended.
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I would agree that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love. Wisdom by definition is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right and lasting. Those components are the direct result of knowing God at an intimate level. As mentioned by the lecturer God’s word is our bedrock – it is the foundation for how we should live and by doing so we therefore will correctly take the correct path through life.
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I would agree with that because to truly know God is to have wisdom. We can adopt that and gain that wisdom through the bible, which she then states is the “bedrock” of foundation of wisdom.