"Wisdom and Knowledge" - 07.19.26

"Wisdom and Knowledge" - 07.19.26 Scripture: Proverbs 8:12-31; 9:13-18 Sermon: "Wisdom and Knowledge" (Rev. Dr. Chris Ganski) Series: Living Sacrifice: Staying Human in the Age of the Machine Worship Folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mBST... Reflections: A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. ~Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Meta (Facebook) A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. ~Alvin Toffler, "A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" If we can capture the Form of ones and zeros in a nonbiological medium—say on a computer disk—why do we need the body's superfluous flesh? . . . Information viewed as pattern and not tied to a particular instantiation is information free to travel across time and space. Hackers are not the only ones who believe that information wants to be free. The great dream and promise of information is that it can be free from the material constraints that govern the mortal world. ~N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life—how things really happen, how things really are, and knowing what I should do about it. . . . One becomes competent and expert as far as the orders in life are concerned only if one begins from knowledge about God. To this extent, Israel attributes to the fear of God, to belief in God, a highly important function in respect of human knowledge. She was in all seriousness, of the opinion that effective knowledge about God is the only thing that puts a man into right relationship with the objects of his perception, that it enables him to ask questions more pertinently, to take stock of relationships more effectively and generally to have a better awareness of circumstances. . . . Faith does not—as is popularly believed today—hinder knowledge; on the contrary it is what liberates knowledge, enables it really to come to the point, and indicates to it its proper place in this sphere of varied human activity. ~Gerhard von Rad, Wisdom in Israel