Theology has a word that keeps us from such idolatry. It’s the word “supereminent.”17 That’s right, super-eminent. If something in God is supereminent, then it must be “more eminent” than that which is in us: “In him [God] all that we are is possessed in a higher, fuller, purer, and limitless way.” God is the one who “donates everything that we are to us out of his infinite plenitude of being, consciousness, and bliss.”18 Take the attribute of wisdom, for example. We may be wise, even reflecting the wisdom of God. There is a correlation between divine and human wisdom (see Proverbs). Such
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