davidm asked:


The world in which we live places great value on knowledge. But people don’t always strive to know the most important things. The truth is you may be extremely knowledgeable about insects, or stars, or the sciences. You may be very wise about those sorts of things and people might really admire you for that knowledge. That’s all well and good, but if you don’t have the wisdom of God, you’re missing the most important knowledge a man can ever hope to attain.

9 Responses to “Is knowing God the most important wisdom you will ever know?”

1. Xiomy on August 16th, 2008 6:35 pm

   Key words ‘a man can ever hope to attain’. If you think you’re getting to know a being so great through ministers and other greedy people who hide behind his name and the cloth, you’re out of your mind!

2. boogy on August 18th, 2008 8:13 am

   No one really knows who or what God is. It is very presumptuous to say so. There is definitely a universal force in nature and natural happenings, but I believe this force will always remain a mystery to man, a “spirit” shall we say. I suppose that may be what is meant by spirtual. One does not have to know or believe in God to be spirtual. I certainly don’t know and never will until possibly in death.

3. RT on August 20th, 2008 7:15 am

   Energy is dissipated, never destroyed.If you stick your finger over a candle flame, the heat is transferred and you get burned. Religion concerns other wisdom that requires faith, but they are also cultural. Yet they all have the same core beliefs of any other religion. Perhaps belief in God and wisdom are two different subjects.

4. Lion of Judah on August 21st, 2008 6:27 am

   Yes, I agree.

5. Doug G on August 22nd, 2008 2:03 am

   Your question assumes ‘the world in which we live’ is the only world we will know. If you believe in God and an afterlife, you should also believe knowledge of the afterlife will be revealed after you die. Knowledge of our existence would be greater than anything we can learn during this life.

6. Liquid on August 24th, 2008 6:06 pm

   No. God is inspiration, a teaching if you will. Great value and knowledge is something you achieve on your own. People will strive other things that may seem more important to them, that is their will. Having the wisdom of God or of any God is by choice. The teachings have good wisdom but it is up to the person to accept the will of it. To live by it’s law, to learn from it’s will is all up to persons stronghold of choice. No will is greater than a humans belief in what they believe.

7. mano on August 26th, 2008 7:23 am

   Don’t you think it is a bit presumptuous of man to assume they do or will know God? How can anyone assume that wisdom relates to “knowing God”?

   In my opinion, if I know or see anyone who claims they know God, I just give him/her a wide berth and continue thinking how wonderful it is to love without knowing (I think this is called faith).

8. jodiexangel on August 28th, 2008 7:52 am

   We cannot have the wisdom of God while on Earth, we are not supposed to and shouldn’t think that we have the power to achieve it as we are not a part of the whole while we exist here, therefore can never know and understand all that God is and knows

9. MrgLvWsdm on August 30th, 2008 1:30 am

   Aristotle: A little knowledge of the higher things is better than sure knowledge of the lower. Plato is even more emphatic on this.