A Call to Wisdom
As Christians we are called to seek wisdom and to listen to the teachings of the church. We are called tio be qise and not listen to the inticments of the world for they will suffer their consquences.
Scripture
28 “When they cry for help, I will not answer.
Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
29 For they hated knowledge
and chose not to fear the LORD.
30 They rejected my advice
and paid no attention when I corrected them.
31 Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
choking on their own schemes.
32 For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.
33 But all who listen to me will live in peace,
untroubled by fear of harm.”
What choices are you making?
V.1-4 The purpose of the writings
purpose is
The Fear of The Lord
V. 10-14 The worlds enticement to partake of Evil
The world sets an ambush for themselves v.18
v.20 Lady wisdom
public square. A metaphorical way of referring to the “space” in which citizens of a democracy discuss and decide issues of common concern. There is much debate over the place of religion in the public square in a pluralistic democracy. Classical liberals as well as such postmodernist thinkers as Richard Rorty argue that religion is a divisive conversation stopper that cannot offer reasons for action that are valid in the public square. Many religious believers reject this argument and claim that the supposed “neutral” standpoint of liberalism is actually a disguised naturalistic perspective. According to such a view, the debate in the public square cannot be divorced from questions of ultimate commitments and worldviews, and therefore religious convictions can have a positive public function in a pluralistic democracy. A more extreme position holds that the public square must be grounded in a specific religious commitment—a view that logically leads to an established form of religion.
