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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 do agree. He is the source of wisdom, so without knowledge of and interaction with Him, we cannot truly know wisdom. We cannot love what we don’t know. Scripture clear tells us that the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom.” It must start with Him.
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Yes, I agree. It stands to reason that since God is the Creator of the world, His design for us is best. He is the rational, all-knowing one able to see and understand what we cannot. Psalm 111:10 affirms “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” The more we understand and know God and His plan, the more we develop the capacity and perspective to wisely discern and make sense of the world.
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I agree. Wisdom is not something that it is given to us. Believers have to work at it, mostly through studying the Bible. Through studying the Bible a believer gains a better understanding of what God’s intentions are.
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I agree with the lecturer’s statement that “only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” Because we live in a fallen world, without a personal, redemptive relationship with Jesus Christ, we cannot truly love wisdom as God created us to love. To be residents of a fallen world in which we are separated from God by sin, we cannot truly love unless we accept the example of true love given to us by Jesus Christ when he sacrificed himself to repair out relationship with the Father. John writes in 1 John 2 verses 15-17, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” John is telling us that the world values fallen things like the lust of the flesh, lust of eyes, and the pride of life. The world’s wisdom is to serve self and sinful, prideful natures. These worldly pursuits of wisdom will pass away, but God’s truth and wisdom will stand forever.
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I would agree. IF wisdom is indeed from God, then one must have the belief of God, to truly love the gift of wisdom. Knowing the gift of wisdom is from God, also imparts more of a desire to gain His wisdom, in stead of the world’s.