Worldly Wisdom

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     First Corinthians 1:15-25 says, “Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

     I was recently speaking with a person who felt it necessary to point out to me the modern philosophy in regard to the Bible.  He emphasized that higher thought is that each writer wrote from the other’s  that were before him and that one of the gospels was not even written by the supposed writer, but someone else and how that a man from Harvard University decided to not get a degree in religion but went and got one in history instead.  It is obvious that a person of the world, educated or not, can’t understand the Scriptures.  Many tell spiritual lies because they cannot look through spiritual eyes.

     Paul attacked the beliefs that were going around in Corinth and elsewhere where the Greek influence existed.  His statement that the Greeks sought after wisdom tells much and is probably one of the reasons that gnosticism existed in that time period.  Paul then hits the nail on the head when he begins the verse with “But…”  We preach Christ crucified.  The world at that time felt that it was foolishness and to the Jews, a stumblingblock.  It is no different today.  How often do men and women scoff at the presentation of the gospel message?  It does not only exist in the world but the people also that sit in many of the church pews in America today.  The christian of today seem to go through the Bible like they do at a cafeteria, picking and choosing what they sem to like and just putting the rest aside.    Paul taught the whole counsel of God and left nothing out.  The Scriptures remind us when things are signs, or wonders or even one of the eleven mysteries and the “types” t hat are mentioned.  For myself, i take the scripture literally except when it is obvious that something else is clear such as the time the Lord Jesus Christ called Herod a “fox.”  We know that Herod did not have a long red tail and a pointed nose and ears and furf all over him, but he did have the cunningness of a fox and needed to be regarded that way and not trusted.  There should be portions of scripture that you nor I understand because we do not know everything there is to know about God even when we have read it time and time again.  I may understand it later on in my life or when I get to heaven.  Praise God for His Word.  It is the only thing that is true and solid.