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It’s foolishness to those who are perishing, to those who do not embrace God’s grace and salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ.
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We are saved by the Cross and Jesus’ death on it.
These same scoffers that can’t believe God would inhabit a man will readily accept that man evolved from small creatures all by itself and it just happened. They have far greater faith than I.
Even before the “foolishness of the Cross” ... it starts with the “foolishness of the Bible”. That’s where it all starts for all those who think it’s all foolish. It always comes back to THAT.
In other words, you can’t even “get to the foolishness of the Cross” until you pass through the “foolishness of the Bible” ... :-) ...
Feeling Foolish? BEEP!
If I think of something as foolishness I tend to just ignore it. These people go out of their way to mock Christianity and Christians. Dawkins and his breed of professional atheists are especially obsessed with castigating belief. Why? If they’re right and this physical existence is all there is then what’s the big deal when someone else believes differently and lives a kindly life because of it. I know there’s a monetary gain when they can sell a book, but it takes some passion and a lot of effort to write the damned thing. The raw hatred that drips from their words comes from someplace and it’s not a good or healthy locale.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. / And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Until people appreciate that Christ is God voluntarily stooped into humanity to lovingly pick up the burden of everyone willing to allow Him to (as many will refuse, deeming their pride enough to carry them), all this other stuff might as well be blah blah blah and it is pointless.
Great things come in small packages.
Our problem is our pride. The answer is God’s love.
A Christ crucified and the message of the cross is a offence to those who trust in their own self righteious works and keeping the law.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
That “not” and that “neither” are absolute negations. “Can” is in the sense of being possibly able. “Know” is in the sense of to perceive or understand.
Just to be clear: we’re ALL of us God-hating sinners. Except for the grace of God, we who profess faith would have remained in our sin.
Even so, we who profess faith must repent daily that we still “hate” God, insofar that we choose our our way, plans, desires.
As my dear mom was found of saying: “dear Lord Jesus, come and deliver us from this body of death...”
Refusing the simplicity of salvation truly takes many forms doesn’t it.