From
James Tissot, a depiction of Mary learning at the feet of Jesus.
Today,
reply is on learning about the Greek philosopher Plato, and learning
about what GOD has revealed and spoken concerning divinity.
Secular knowledge and wisdom are expressions by created beings
and living creatures that focus on such features as appetite (e.g.,
hunger, thirst, cravings for sexual contact), sensation, (e.g.,
hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), and emotion/mind (e.g., anger,
fear, imagination, recall). Human philosophy and science attempt to
describe material objects, life experience, and the physical world
using finite, man-made tools for measurement and sharing information.
Intellect, logic, and carnal reason are not sufficient to completely
and correctly explain such elements as the origin, process, and
substance for existence, life, and divine fullness that include
faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, personhood, wisdom,
and wrath against sin. It is written: Isaiah 55: 7-11, King James
Version (KJV): 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth
not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. One of the
fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no
profile is shared) in the public forum on Religion and Spirituality
posted the following:
Does
God think that he is a mathematician?
Biologists think they are biochemists,
Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists,
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists,
Physicists think they are Gods,
And God thinks he is a Mathematician.
-Plato
Biologists think they are biochemists,
Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists,
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists,
Physicists think they are Gods,
And God thinks he is a Mathematician.
-Plato
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge
among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with
meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your
hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom
descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and
every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of
mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
peace. (James 3: 13-18, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Focus On Things Revealed (09/12/2019); The Existence
of “Goodness”? (12/06/2018); Divine Knowledge And Wisdom
(06/24/2018); Idolatry -- Exalting Human Devices? (09/21/2017); Tools
For Knowing Divinity (05/12/2017); Abstractions, Atheism and I.Q.
(08/18/2016); Was Jesus Literate? (10/04/2013); Everything a Lie?
(10/05/2013)
“Anonymous”,
to learn of Plato, one may consult brittanica.com that reports,
“Plato, (born 428/427 bce, Athens, Greece—died 348/347, Athens),
ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (c. 470–399 bce),
teacher of Aristotle (384–322 bce), and founder of the Academy,”.
At stanford.edu, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy one reads,
“Plato (429?–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most
dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the
most penetrating,”; and .en.wikepedia.org states that “Plato was
an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient
Greece...the Academy founded by Plato was the first institution of
higher learning in the Western world.” To learn of divine fullness
(Christian believers also may say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit) look into the things shared by the
ministry of Jesus, be alert to hear GOD himself as he has been
recorded in the holy writings. The sacred operations of divinity on
behalf of mankind include Creation, judgment, Incarnation,
revelation, and salvation. Divinity has appeared on the earth using
thousands of events, within thousands of lives, over the course of
thousands of years. Men are to learn by sharing with one another
their own discoveries, edification, praise, and testimonies that make
GOD knowable, approachable, present and visible. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Bishop Walter Hawkins:
1.
Exodus 3: 13-15, King James Version (KJV): 13 And Moses said unto
God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and
shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you;
and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say
unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say
unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is
my memorial unto all generations.
2.
Exodus 34: 6-8, KJV: 6 And the Lord passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD
God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness
and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the
children’s children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste,
and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
3.
Job 38: 1-11, KJV: 1 Then the LORD answered
Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 2 Who is this that
darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up now thy
loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if
thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if
thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon
are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone
thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of
God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors,
when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddlingband for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place,
and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but
no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
4.
Matthew 11: 28-30, KJV: 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
5.
John 6: 41-48, KJV: 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he
said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said,
Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
yourselves. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath
sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is
written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every
man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh
unto me. 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is
of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 48 I am that bread of
life.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended (for example, (6.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH2KvYrzZgA&list=RDUH2KvYrzZgA&start_radio=1&t=130.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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