Emphasis Preaching Journal
The oldest riddle in the...
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The oldest riddle in the world: "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?" I doubt that a solution is important, especially if the pondering over it detracts from either the chicken or the egg. The writer of Proverbs would assert that God created Wisdom before anything else, but his words seem to tell a different story. As Wisdom, given a voice in the poetry, describes God's creative acts, it seems that the reality of Wisdom is expressed in how God did create.