Understanding the bible: "We are blessed because we know what is pleasing to God."

in blessed •  4 years ago 

The prophet Baruch dedicates part of his book to the study of wisdom: "Wisdom is the book of God's commandments, the Law that will last forever. All who hold onto her will live, but those who abandon her will die. Turn to Wisdom, people of Israel, and take hold of her.", Baruch 4:1.
Wisdom is the law that subsists eternally, it is the source of all commandments, those who follow it acquire spiritual life, those who abandon it reap destruction. This has a relationship with the Psalm of the two ways (Psalm 1:1): two mentalities, two paths, two retributions. Baruch explains that God is the foundation of ethics and that there is a fundamental choice, we choose between truth and error, between wisdom (the knowledge of the correct means to live) and heresy (teaching of the error).
Baruch also tells us in the bible, that wisdom is what pleases God, acquiring wisdom is a beatitude: "Israel, we are blessed because we know what is pleasing to God", Baruch 4:4.
In philosophy there is a principle that says that "like seeks like" or "birds dwell with their kind". God works with wisdom and goodness: "His works are perfect", Deuteronomy 32,4. Everything that is pleasing to God is perfect and good ("Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights", James 1:17), God is the wisdom itself, and his spiritual gifts, his divine qualities, are perfections: ("Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect", Matthew 5:48)
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Those who live with wisdom live with God and are his children: "There is nothing that God loves more than people who are at home with Wisdom.", Wisdom 7:28
Baruch's teachings bear a resemblance to the teachings of the Book of Wisdom written by King Solomon, but also to the beatitudes of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
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