Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:12:21 PM
‘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? 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’ [1 Corinthians 1:20-21].
We thank Mr. Stein for helping to expose the foolishness of the autonomous wisdom of men. When men suppress the knowledge of God inherent in their being as image bearers and reject the revelations of God in nature and in Scripture, then Darwinism and Panspermia are the best they have to offer.
These things confirm the words of the apostle that the wisdom of men does not lead to the knowledge of God. Now this is a remarkable statement that cannot be denied. God cannot be known starting with man and his wisdom.
How is this according to the wisdom of God? What does the apostle mean that God uses the means of preaching to save those who believe?
The answer is that truth understood will crush the pride of men. We are in Christ not by any merit of our own, but by grace alone…
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.” [1 Corinthians 1:26-31]