While the citizens of Rome were enchangted with the Glory of Rome, Greece's attention was elsewhere. The Corinthians pride was invested in knowledge. Paul knew this... he knew that to get the Corinthians to listen to him, they would need to be approached from the perspective of reason.Yet he knew even moreso that the path to a saving faith does not come through reason. Thus he declares...
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”Indeed, those who do not believe by faith, but reason alone cannot fathom how kingdom math works. Lose your life to save it... foolish. The least shall be the greatest... foolish. Find salvation up on a cross...foolish. Yet those who are foolish in the eyes of the world find true power in these words and in the eternal life promised by the one who lived them.
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