1 Corinthians 1:18-21
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
The worldly wisdom of man’s imagination sees Jesus’s crucifixion as utter nonsense. Yet these are all heading to utter ruin as they charge into God’s wrath and judgment, while those of us being delivered from that as His see the cross as the Almighty’s power to save dead men by putting to death our sin and counting Christ alone as our goodness and righteousness. Therefore God makes human wisdom foolish and our arguments futile. The message of the gospel and its cross is foolish to those requiring their wisdom and work to improve themselves into seemingly good people worthy of their own salvation. But God saves the one who trusts that His simple message and work are the only way, no matter how foolish it may appear against our unfounded wisdom.
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