Opus 2025-316: Applied Attribute

When thinking about how Proverbs 8 seems to imply that wisdom was at creation and involved in creation, I came to the conclusion that wisdom was an attribute of God.  As I said, looking at the oak trees in my yard, each one original and unique, each one similar enough to be identified, each one having genetic similarities, and yet each one is different.  I used to just think of the creativity involved in this.  I’m thinking about oak leaves developing now and I thought about the continued creativity of God.  Somehow wisdom plays into that.  When I think of creativity, I think of coming up with new ideas.  When I think of wisdom, I have the thought that there is a reason for everything and that all fits together.

That tells me that creation is not arbitrary, that everything has a real reason, and how it relates to everything else.  In quantum physics they talk about the butterfly effect.  In case you missed it, they speculate that a butterfly wings flapping in Brazil could affect a tornado in Texas.  It seems impossible, but when you get down to it, not so much.  Everything God does affects everything else.

Take that principle and apply it to things like the law.  The law is proclaimed good in Psalms and Proverbs.  Some philosophers, with time on their hands got together with some theologians who needed to do some serious study.  They came up with a question, “Is something good because God declares it so or does God declare it so because it is good?”  An interesting speculation, but it doesn’t change anything.  I would like to speculate on how wisdom applies the law that was given by God, in ways that affects everything in our lives in our culture.  There are laws that we don’t understand.  There are laws that seem to be nonsense.  That itself is nonsense, because God does not waste His time on nonsense.  Nonsense is not an attribute of God.  Wisdom is.  So all of creation and all of our Truth is based on the wisdom of God.

There are so many things that I don’t understand.  That gives me a bit of comfort and realizing that maybe someday I will and if not, I know it’s still for the best.

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