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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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Although God created us all in His image, as believers, we have the Holy Spirit who gives us understanding. 1 Cor. 2:14-16 says, ‘The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.’
Having the mind of Christ allows us to see things from a heavenly perspective and appreciate all of God’s wisdom and creation because we know the creator. -
I believe that all humans can truly love wisdom. I believe this because no matter what, we are all created in God’s image, and therefore we all do desire wisdom and love to some degree. However, only believers will really understand some of the mysteries of the world and our God because we have the Holy Spirit who helps us in this.
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Yes, I agree with her because we are made in God’s image. She quoted Psalm 111: “…the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
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I must agree as many places in Scripture do as well. Isaiah 11:2 states, “and the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” (KJV) meaning that wisdom, true wisdom, only comes through the Spirit from our LORD. Then, in Jeremiah 8:9 we read, “The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?” (KJV). This states blatantly that when we subtract God from our understanding, or wisdom, we are bound to become dismayed, depressed, taken into the chains of hopelessness and oppression from our own wisdom and thoughts. Also note the waring in Colossians 2:23 that says, “These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh” (ESV). Without God as our resource for wisdom, the knowledge and wisdom we gain will not bring satisfaction, we will always thirst for more and feel as though we are lacking. Although we are to continuously thirst for God’s wisdom, it will bring satisfaction unlike man’s or the world’s wisdom.
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I agree as it is only through His indwelling Spirit that one is able to truly able to recognize and appreciate the wisdom that comes from above.