Wisdom of the Cross

Sat at the table this morning with a cup of hot coffee, western omelette, grits and a dear brother and we got on a discussion about philosophy. He said he had a philosophy class once where the professor defined philosophy as there is no absolute truth but rather truth would be reasoned out thru the questioning of everything. I actually would have enjoyed that class.

It got me thinking of the verse of 1 Corinthians 1 where Paul says basically that the Greeks(the philosophers of that age) demand wisdom but the cross was folly to them since the foolishness of God is wiser than men.

The cross really is foolish in the eyes of men. It makes such little sense that no one could possibly even make up a story like it. Of all the false gods and folklore that has been handed down thru the generations in all the different cultures nothing compares to the foolishness of the cross.

The creator of the universe, of time, and of space, would leave His throne and take on the limitations of flesh.
become sin
and give his life on a cross
For whom?
His enemies.
Not people who loved him or people who even did good but
His enemies.
Why?
because He loved and wanted to make them His friends.
Abe Lincoln said if you want to totally destroy your enemy make them your friend.
Yea but make them your friend by freely giving your life,
naked,
alone,
in the most humiliating of ways?

We can understand someone dying for a good person or possibly even a righteous person but who dies for an enemy?(Romans 5) In the wisdom of man this simply doesn't compute.

Yet this is the great mystery revealed that is spoken of in Ephesians. I think it even took the angels by surprise.

Somehow philosophy proves out the absolute truth of the cross.