Questions tagged [wisdom]

the quality of understanding and good judgement.

Use this tag for questions about the attribute of 'being wise', and about the personification of Wisdom used in the Bible, or for the biblicl literary genre called 'wisdom literature', of which Ecclesiastes is an example.. Use 'book-of-wisdom' for the apocryphal book also called the "Wisdom of Solomon".

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How should a Christian put a decision in God's hands if there is no logical answer?

Lets say a Christian is in a position where he must make a hard decision (assume it has to either be a yes or no by a deadline) and each one has negatives consequences (more negatives than positives). How should a Christian pick one option over…
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On what basis do Christians sometimes claim to know what God's intentions are?

For example, some Creationists will explain dinosaur bones as "God placed them there to test us" - even if God did place them there, isn't it presumptuous to speculate what the motivations were?
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