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Not speaking for/from the op, but:

Proverbs 3:5-6 (the verses you referenced) in context seem to be broadly an appeal to humility*, to know that you do not know, like Socrates.

But also an appeal to the true source of wisdom: a genuinely external force, source, or really, entity, that is YHWH.

If this entity is not real or cannot be communed with, then this is obvious absurdity.

BUT… if He is real, and we CAN know Him… then hypothetically, nothing could be better, and no greater state of humility exist than submitting oneself directly to He who is above all things.

*(this seems to be exactly what the aforementioned “trust the science” crowd, and bad-science in general, is lacking: you cannot search for what you think you already have)

Jeff Swann 2y ago

The way I see things, God is the very fabric of reality. The act of seeking to understand, & to observe, & to appreciate the world around us IS communion with God. It is denying reality & indulging our delusions that separates us from God/reality.

So in that sense, yes, wisdom comes from God.

But there is no "submission" to God that doesn't still involve thinking & understanding & choosing our own actions. To suggest otherwise sounds very much like making decisions purely based on whichever whims & feelings we decide to attribute to God. It's just moving delusion to a different layer of thought.

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Pastor Coin 🫡 2y ago

Yes, we submit to God by using our own thinking and actions. It's a choice at make or don't make

Dr.EAD 2y ago

As I like to say, “If the universe is a self-driving car, you might as well call it KITT.”

😉🏎😂

Fair warning tho, that might be understood or spoken of as pantheism, which I don’t think is quite what you mean, altho about as close as traditional monotheism. Or maybe, something quasi-platonic? Socrates’ agnostic monotheism, but more impersonal and absent like Plato’s forms?

😬🤔

Dr.EAD 2y ago

I do understand your concern tho: a submission to something external must be exactly that, and many in their religious practice(s) simply rewrite, rename, and grant excess authority to their own (albeit “higher” in some sense) whims.

So I do think this is a valid and sound concern…

Nevertheless, to make it a rule or principle presumes total knowledge of the data. If even one religious experience is legitimately-divine, this is not the case, and to ignore such a possibility is to presume your own conclusion, i.e. the fallacy of begging the question.