Luke 2:52 Jesus grew both in body and in wisdom, gaining favor with God and people. (Good News Translation)
Unfortunately, in some of our religious institutions, people are expected to check their brains at the door; however, God is not in any way opposed to wisdom. In fact, we read that as Jesus matured and grew wiser, God actually loved Him more and more, along with the people that heard His intelligent ministry!
Currently, we live in a world reverberating with a deafening cacophony of talking heads, all claiming special insight on any life-and-death topic you might wish to discuss. Sadly, social media is literally killing us in the grips of a pandemic as spurious opinions recirculate like feedback trapped in a loop between the mic and speaker of an amplification system. Louder and louder, the opposing views blare until we want to cup our ears with our hands and cry, “No more!”
Regretfully, some individuals who proudly advertise their ignorance in public also include poor God in the argument, using Him as justification for their stance like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Nevertheless, before we weaponize the Almighty by coercing His endorsement, we must have a good Scriptural foundation for our claim or else we have “built our house on shifting sand (Matthew 7:26),” waiting for the Creator's natural laws to demolish our statement like a passing storm (Isaiah 28:17).
Unfortunately, some seemingly make blind faith the enemy of wisdom; however, this shortsighted flaw is probably motivated more by spiritual laziness than any other factor due to a lack of knowledge about what the Bible actually says. In the Early Church, wisdom was the most vital component of faith, allowing believers to know exactly what their confidence in God's Word rested on. During the Medieval Period in Asia Minor, the largest church in the world was named the Hagia Sophia... the Beauty of Wisdom.