THE POWER AND WISDOM OF ALMIGHTY GREAT GOD

THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD

By Fr. Felix (African Times Guest Writer)

This is perhaps the strongest statement in the

Bible that God does not judge as humans do.

This has been evident throughout the Old

Testament: God chooses a younger son (Abel,

Joseph, David) over his brothers;God enables

the unarmed David to slay the gigantic Goliath;

God enables a woman, Judith, to triumph over

Holofernes while the men skulk behind their

walls.

Paul now points out the further paradox that

Jesus’ ultimate moment of humiliation and

suffering is the moment which fulfils God’s

purpose of saving humanity.

Further than this Paul now points out that

Jesus actually is the power and the Wisdom of

God. In the Wisdom literature of the Old

Testament God’s Wisdom is the mediator of

creation, the agent by which God creates, the

master-craftsman, ever at play in his presence

(Proverbs 8.30), a reflection of the eternal light

(Wisdom 7.26). A person’s wisdom cannot be

separated from that person, and yet is not the

same as that person.

The scripture is struggling to convey the

relationship of two entities which are the same,

yet not the same. This is perhaps the first

attempt to define the Godness of Jesus. In the

gospels we see the power of God at work in

Jesus, and hear that the Father and the Son

have the same power and the same will.

Later, other attempts will be made to define

their relationship in terms of persons and

natures. Human language is being stretched to

express a unique situation for which human

language was not devised.

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