The Wisdom of God

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The Wisdom of Gods Foolishness

• 1 Corinthians 118-25

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• I. Gods wisdom and mans wisdom are opposed (18).

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that
  death is not the end.
• Richard Dawkins

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• I have found Christian dogma
• unintelligible. Early in life I absented
• myself from Christian assemblies.
• Benjamin Franklin

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• You can't convince a believer of anything for
  their belief is not based on evidence, it's based
  on a deep seated need to believe.
• Carl Sagan

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• I. Gods wisdom and mans wisdom are opposed
  (18).
• II. God has destroyed mankinds wisdom (19-25).
• A. He made wise people foolish (19-20).
• B. He made worldly wisdom worthless (21-24).

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• It took time for the church to come to terms
  with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers
  forbade its depiction in art until the reign of
  the emperor Constantine, who had seen a vision of
  the cross and who also banned it as a method of
  execution

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• Now, though, the symbol is everywhere artists
  beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution
  device, baseball players cross themselves before
  batting, and candy confectioners even make
  chocolate cross for the faithful to eat during
  Holy Week.

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become
  a religion of the cross the gallows, the
  electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern
  terms.
• Philip Yancey

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1 Corinthians 118-25

• I. Gods wisdom and mans wisdom are opposed
  (18).
• II. God has destroyed mankinds wisdom (19-25).
• A. He made wise people foolish
• (19-20).
• B. He made worldly wisdom worthless (21-24).
• C. He made the Gospel wiser and stronger
  (25).

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