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    The Beginning of Wisdom: Journey towards Knowledge, #1
    The Beginning of Wisdom: Journey towards Knowledge, #1
    The Beginning of Wisdom: Journey towards Knowledge, #1
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    The Beginning of Wisdom: Journey towards Knowledge, #1

    By Ronald E. Newton

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    What is the beginning of wisdom and where does it lead?
    1. My response is to tell you why God does not need us in His business. 
    2. God laughs at our plans. 
    3. He wishes we would stop our attempts to micro-manage Him.
    4. Give some thought as to why we are here—our purpose.
    5  How to pray.

    Look at our life and determine who we serve:

    1. God
    2. Man
    3. Lucifer

    As much as we would like God to accept excuses—HE doesn’t. 
    1. Why fathers must be men? 
    2. Why the war against males?
    3. Respect for fathers has rapidly eroded in our society. 
    4. Children raising children, generation after generation. 
    5. Baby mommas rule the household in poverty stricken neighborhoods across America.

    I believe our only solution is God’s template or model—the family. It is what God continually uses with us. Yet, we seem to not understand its importance. Worse, we lack the will to emulate it! 

    Take another journey with us in the series by buying this book NOW.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLow Cost Internet Biz LLC
    Release dateJan 22, 2016
    ISBN9781524215170
    The Beginning of Wisdom: Journey towards Knowledge, #1
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    Ronald E. Newton

    Ronald E. Newton I spent eight years with the USAF Security Service serving overseas. Military intelligence is not an oxymoron. Worked several years as a medicare claims examiner for the state of New Jersey. Finally found a job I liked. Meaning I love to work my job. After 32 years retired from IBM as a networking consultant. It was an eye opener to work in the back rooms of corporate America. Some where in the journey I married a southern belle and moved to the south. Two sons and daughter entered my family and all of them have left home to be on their own. They still come back though. After receiving helping hands in my career, I taught for free, the SAT in Greensboro, NC for 25 years. Every college graduate was a satisfying victory for me and my students. The lesson learned there was don't teach---Mentor! Became immersed in a new network called the Internet. Imagine PCs instead of water cooled main frames. Worked to launch free blogs at triadblogs.com. Developed mentoring site for SAT, GED and Personal Finances. I have a personal blog at www.rnewton.net/wordpress/ and an author's website at www.rnewton.net. You may email me or get links to my mentoring sites from my author's website. Please drop by and kick the tires. I was first published in Negro Digest in 1964. My how the years have flown. Why should you give a book review? Take a look at this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0T37CeqIY How to write a book review. Watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuxopkUVNds

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      The Beginning of Wisdom - Ronald E. Newton

      God.

      Beginning of Wisdom

      Fear of God

      The Bible has said that the beginning of wisdom for a man is fear of God. Psalm 111:10: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth forever. Reverence or awe is also types of fear. In HIS presence I suspect my fear is paramount especially if we never communicated before.

      It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage, but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

      – Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

      And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both. But since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

      – Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince

      It is okay to love God. He isn’t offended by sincere love. God is the Supreme Being. The creation of what we know was made through Him. He is beyond man’s understanding. The place where He lives is heaven surrounded by angels. This earth is a place where spirits also live. Most children love their parents. A child loves especially his or her mother. A father is feared first and loved second by his children. We normally express reverence, respect for our parents. I believe that also applies to our heavenly Father.

      John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. No human has seen God’s true nature or natural state of Holiness. To do so would destroy the viewer. Jesus is the son of God as well as the Word. What men saw was veiled or in Jesus’s case encased in flesh when He came to earth born of a virgin woman.

      Exodus 33:20: And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. God’s interaction with humans is veiled. We see angels, Jesus, or other representations or images of Him.

      John 1:1 - 5: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The word in this case was Jesus Christ. He created the creation by the authority of God. By His hand we exist. Jesus had a heavenly family.

      Hebrews 1:1 - 4: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. This is another reference to the Word as the creator who was with God. The God who speaks to man in the past through the prophets will now speak to man the Jesus.

      God not only created us but looks after us. He isn’t to blame for mankind’s entering into evil ways.

      Seventeen of God’s attributes are:

      Wisdom to invent perfect goals or objectives you may call ends. Creating the perfect means to accomplish those ends

      Infinitude in other words, God is infinite He has no boundaries.

      Sovereignty means God is in control.

      Holiness sets God apart us in that He has perfect morality and purity.

      Trinity is God the father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These are involved in doing what only God can do. God can’t be subdivided.

      Omniscience is God’s perfect infinite knowledge. He simply knows everything.

      Faithfulness is that everything God promised will happen or come to pass. God doesn’t lie.

      Omnipotence which means all-powerful. Our limited power doesn’t diminish HIS. The Sabbath was an example to us. God wasn’t tired when He finished creation.

      Self-existence means in the beginning God was already here. Nothing created God. He isn’t from something else.

      Self-sufficiency means that God doesn’t change, nor does He require help. How could one improve on God? God has life in Himself.

      Justice the Bible says that God is just. He demands a penalty for evil acts. Since God is perfect and does no evil He has the moral value of being just.

      Immutability attribute means that God never changes. We in this world know that change continually occurs in us, and our physical world.

      Mercy is the attribute of God to be actively compassionate. It is how He desires to relate to mankind. Note, despise or reject His mercy and His justice becomes the attribute you’ll face.

      Eternal says God has always been in existence and will be in the future. God is eternal.

      Goodness disposes God to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men.

      Gracious God enjoys giving to those who love Him, even when they don’t deserve it. That inclination is called grace.

      Omnipresence means always present. It is also a theological term. By the way, that means everywhere and anywhere without exceptions.

      If you knew God why wouldn’t you be afraid? Imagine a face to face encounter with God. Could you even speak or withstand his

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