The
Folly of This World Exposed at the Cross
By
Art Licursi
“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?” (I Cor. 1:20).
This challenge was written and
hurled at the intellectual world nearly two thousand years ago, a world so
famous for its philosophy, literature, and art.
These are not the words of one
who lacked the benefits of higher learning. Rather, they flowed from the pen
of one of the most learned men, one of the greatest thinkers of all time,
the Apostle Paul.
Paul confronted the powerful
of his time – in
Greece
,
Rome
and
Israel
. The thinkers and philosophers
of
Greece
… the imperialist of
Rome
as well… as the religionist of
Israel
, were all duly noted at the cross, codifying their ignorance. The truth of
who Jesus Christ was is mockingly written above His cross in their three
languages of Greek, Latin and Hebrew; “This
is the King of the Jews”
(see Luke 23:38).
Paul’s words are found in
that Book of books, the Bible that has withstood not “just barely,” but
“magnificently,” all the attacks of a thousand critics through centuries
of time.
This Book says:
“The
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God”
(I Cor. 3:19).
“The
fear (reverence) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 9:10).
Actually, the
“intellectuals” in any age are those who assent to the theories of those
who agree with each other that they are intellectual! We see this in the
incestuous media, entertainment and political circles of our time in the
USA
as they destroy all that is good and choose to honor evil. They say
punishing criminals and murderers is “too much,” but killing 55,000,000
of unborn souls is “good.”
If you dissent from them you
have automatically branded yourself an illiterate! Pride, arrogance,
self-aggrandizement are characteristic that mark the unregenerate mind of
men who are lost.
The blindness of the hearts
and minds confounds them.
“But
God hath chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of
the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And
base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
That
no flesh should glory in His
presence” (I Cor. 1:27-29).