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Job 38:36
36 Who hath put [shiyth] wisdom [chokmah] in the inward parts [tuwchah]? or who hath given [nathan] understanding [biynah] to the heart [sekviy]? KJV-Interlinear
36 'Who has put wisdom in the innermost being, Or has given understanding to the mind? NASB
Where does wisdom reside? Where does understanding reside? Where does knowledge reside? And how do each of these get there?
In your existence, there are three lives. There is biological life, human life, and eternal life. Each of these reside in a vessel. Biological life resides in the physical human body. Human life resides in the human soul. Eternal life resides in the human spirit.
We are all born with biological life and at birth, God imputes human life along with its soul, into our physical body. This soul life replaces the umbilical cord channeled life support, which was cut off when we were born.
Without soul life, the body would be dead. What happens at the point of death? The soul leaves the body behind and lifeless. The soul leaves this world bound for the hereafter.
Where is the intelligence of the person? It is in the soul. Intelligence does not remain in the brain. The brain is a biological component and decays along with the rest of the body when the soul departs.
The brain certainly is a link between the physical body and the soul, but the brain is not the life of the person. And certainly when the brain ages or misfires, that link between ones intelligence and that which is usable in this life, is diminished.
Who invented the human body? Who invented the human soul? Who designed their interactive function?
And here we learn that it is God who is responsible for the learning mechanism, which places wisdom and understanding into the person.
Man did not design himself. Man did not declare his IQ nor plan for it prior to his own birth.
God certainly gave man volition, and we all have the right to make our own choices, but we do not have control over the learning process within the brain let alone the soul. We don't even know how exactly, the brain works. And, we cannot even see or detect or measure the human soul.
Just having any ability to learn and discern and reason, is courtesy of the grace of God. Otherwise you would be no better off than an animal whose life is restricted to the blood, Lev. 17:11, or the biological.
The soul of the human being makes all the difference.
