As you know the past few months, the Pew has been looking at the Good Way, today we continue that journey by taking just a few moments to look at this quest for knowledge and wisdom that sometimes can compromise the road to the Good Way.

We’re going to go out on the limb today so to speak and simply say that in our opinion, there are three components to the subject we’re looking at today. There is a new phenomenon known as AI, add to that just plain knowledge and round that out with God’s wisdom. Artificial intelligence is a computer technology that is designed to simulate human intelligence. It enables machines to learn from data, recognize patterns, solve problems, and to literally make decisions. What’s unusual about this particular system is that it allows itself to adapt, analyze the information, and perform tasks that typically require human input. But it becomes even more amazing once you consider the fact that the traditional computer software that we use nowadays follow strict rules, and is programed by humans. But the new AI on the other hand operates by analyzing vast amounts of information, examples and data rather than explicit instructions. It looks at trends and data to make educated predictions, and it understands spoken language and if that’s not enough, it identifies objects in images.

Knowledge, on other hand is the confident understanding, awareness, or familiarity of a subject, concept, or skill. It’s acquired, you get there through study, observation, or experience, the bridge between raw information and actionable insight. Gaining knowledge can really be broken down into some procedural steps, so to speak the core types of knowledge. One of course, is procedural, knowing how to perform a task, then there’s conceptional the understanding of theories and mental models. And then the next is pretty common for most of us and that’s factual familiarity with the specific objective data, and any information that is provided for that. Then there is the  knowledge that is gained from experience that is often difficult to transfer to others. Here is interesting fact about knowledge which is pretty well understood to be defined as justified true belief. To know something you must believe it and it must be true and you must have valid reasons or just reasons for that belief and that brings us to the last topic of these concepts. That of course, being God’s wisdom.

I’ve done quite a bit of research trying to find ways to write about this topic and the best I could find, the one that I feel comfortable with would be found on gotquestions.org . The information that I shared with you in this blog, a large part of it came from the website I just listed. I chose that because there are a number of biblical verses that were used in the explanation about God’s wisdom. And there is no better place to learn about that wisdom than the Bible itself. According to the Bible, God’s wisdom is the perfect divine insight, of moral purity, and understanding that governs the universe. Unlike worldly knowledge which relies heavily on self promotion, God, the wisdom is rooted in reference for the Lord and is characterized by a lifestyle of righteousness, humility, and peace. It’s interesting to note that one of the first points made in this article is the fact that the starting point would be the book of proverbs which states that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Simply said it means that we’re acknowledging God’s sovereignty, obeying his commands, and relying on His truth rather than human intellect. Consider 

James 3:17…But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Next we find in 1 Corinthians 1:24-25…but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. Paul wrote this to symbolically state that the power of God and the wisdom of God could be found in Jesus Christ among us. The Bible is very plain about Godly versus earthly wisdom. The Bible simply describes earthly wisdom as being foolish. Earthly wisdom relies on pride and self interest, and shortsightedness, whereas Gods is the wisdom to live from an eternal perspective and prioritize God’s will. I could continue on and overwhelm you with scripture, but it’s true in my opinion that the things we learn and retain are the things that we have in our heart. Godly wisdom is from God and it honors God, the wisdom starts with fear of God and results in a holy life, but if we see the wisdom of this world, and we’re not concerned with honoring God, but with pleasing our self, we’re gonna get in big trouble. With worldly wisdom we may become educated, smart, and have common sense that enables us to play the world’s game successfully. But when we look at the difference and look at Godly wisdom, we see that it will prepare us for eternity. With Godly wisdom, we trade earthly values for biblical values, and we recognize that we are truly citizens of another kingdom and the choices we make will reflect that allegiance. I’ll wrap this up by simply asking you to go to this website which I’ve included. Read this and think heavily about the direction you are traveling. Is it a Good Way…God’s Way?

https://www.gotquestions.org/godly-wisdom.html 

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