interesting nonsense from the catholic scripture The Book of Wisdom
The Wisdom of Solomon blames Satan and non-Jews for sin and evil and turns the
Jews virtually into impeccable saints and lights to the world. “ Read this bit
from chapter 10. It was Wisdom who delivered a holy people, a blameless race,
from a nation of oppressors. She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord, and
withstood fearsome kings with wonders and signs. To the holy people she gave the
wages of their labours; she guided them by a marvellous road, herself their
shelter by day -- and their starlight through the night. She brought them across
the Red Sea, leading them through an immensity of water, whereas she drowned
their enemies, then spat them out from the depths of the abyss.
It denies love the sinner and hate the sin,. Wisdom chapter 14
“7 For blessed is the wood which serves the cause of uprightness
8 but accursed the man-made idol, yes, it and its maker, he for having made it,
and it because, though perishable, it has been called god.
9 For God holds the godless and his godlessness in equal hatred;
10 both work and workman will alike be punished.
No wonder its theme is gloating over the terrible fate of the Egyptians who
oppressed Israel.
This book properly belongs in the New Testament if it belongs in the Bible at
all. It is a terrible dating error on the part of the Catholic Church to regard
a book written after Jesus had fulfilled the Old Testament as part of that very
Testament! Jesus is conspicuous in the book by his absence though there is a
similar use of mythology. Or is it the case that Jesus is the myth in the book?
The author in the book claims to have supernatural wisdom of all things
specifically science! And who says the Bible authorities never claimed to know
science!
Chapter 7 goes, “He it was who gave me sure knowledge of what exists, to
understand the structure of the world and the action of the elements, 18 the
beginning, end and middle of the times, the alternation of the solstices and the
succession of the seasons, 19 the cycles of the year and the position of the
stars, 20 the natures of animals and the instincts of wild beasts, the powers of
spirits and human mental processes, the varieties of plants and the medical
properties of roots. 21 And now I understand everything, hidden or visible, for
Wisdom, the designer of all things, has instructed me. 22 For within her is a
spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied,
lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd, 23 irresistible, beneficent, friendly
to human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying,
penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits. 24 For Wisdom is
quicker to move than any motion; she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all
things.