Why the Bible Is the Source of Human Wisdom
The Bible is the source of human wisdom.
A Book of Divine Wisdom
The Bible is the Word of God. Through the Bible, God
speaks to each and every one of us, if we are willing. In other words, the
wisdom expressed in the Bible is God’s divine wisdom to man.
According to Guinness Book of Records, the Bible
is the all-time best-selling book, as well as the most translated work in world
literature. This indicates that many people do believe that the Bible is a book
of absolute truths and divine wisdom from God.
The Bible is a book of wisdom based on Biblical truths
that require faith to believe in the authenticity of historical manuscripts
reporting those events that had already taken place.
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of
Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias
tetrarch of Abilene.” (Luke 3: 1)
This Biblical truth is further attested to by human
historical time scale: BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini—“in the year of
our Lord”). Jesus Christ is a real historical figure, and His birth is a very
solid historical fact reported by many historians.
The Bible is made up of the Old Testament and the New
Testament.
The Old Testament comprises thirty-nine books: the
Pentateuch, written by Moses, about how the Israelites came to be the chosen
people of God; the historical books, written by numerous authors, about the
history of Israel, from its rise in Canaan to its downfall in Babylon; the
poetical books about wisdom and worship for the Israelites; and the books of
ancient prophets, admonishing and warning the Israelites of destruction through
their sinful nature and disobedience to God.
These religious writings of ancient Israel focused on the chronicle history of Israel
The New Testament is a collection of writings by eight
different writers (the Apostles: Matthew, John, Paul, James, Peter, Jude; the
Disciples: Mark, Luke), addressing different early Christian churches. This
collection of twenty-seven books, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles,
the Epistles, and the Revelation of John, appeared one after another in the
second half of the first century.
The New Testament is explicit about the revelation of
God’s wisdom to man through the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, and the Messiah
of Israel. God’s wisdom is expressed through Jesus’ teachings, culminating in
the Crucifixion, which symbolizes the conquest of human death due to sin, as
well as the fulfillment of the Covenant of God with man.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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