From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: before birth...
Date: 18 Dec 1992 06:28:05 GMT
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In a previous article, STCHRI@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA ("DOUGL, APPARENTLY.") says:

>Ruth:
>
>Late in this chapter Paul makes an interesting assertion...
>
>that God is philosophically playful [that is, that
>he set up the world to confound the wise].
>
>This is certainly an interesting perspective on the
>Christian God, one which I had not thought of
>before.

That God might have a sense of humor?:-)  Heck, Christ made puns.....<grin>
[that bit about the camel and the eye of a needle....]  Any creator who allows
those, and creatures like the Blue-footed Booby *has* to have one.:-)

>thank you for drawing my attention to this letter
>once again.
>
You're welcome; it's a good one to mess around in.  I think part of that bit
about confounding the wise is all about men trying to rely on themselves
and only themselves - and the dumb things they do while trying.  

>1 Corinthians 1:1  Paul called to be an apostle of
>Jesus Christ through the will of God, and
>Sosthenes our brother,
>1 Corinthians 1:2  Unto the church of God which is
>at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ
>Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every
>place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
>both their's and our's:
>1 Corinthians 1:3  Grace be unto you, and peace,
>from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
>Christ.
>1 Corinthians 1:4  I thank my God always on your
>behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by
>Jesus Christ;
>1 Corinthians 1:5  That in every thing ye are
>enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all
>knowledge;
>1 Corinthians 1:6  Even as the testimony of Christ
>was confirmed in you:
>1 Corinthians 1:7  So that ye come behind in no
>gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus
>Christ:
>1 Corinthians 1:8  Who shall also confirm you unto
>the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of
>our Lord Jesus Christ.
>1 Corinthians 1:9  God is faithful, by whom ye
>were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus
>Christ our Lord.
>1 Corinthians 1:10  Now I beseech you, brethren,
>by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all
>speak the same thing, and that there be no
>divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly
>joined together in the same mind and in the same
>judgment.
>1 Corinthians 1:11  For it hath been declared unto
>me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the
>house of Chloe, that there are contentions among
>you.
>1 Corinthians 1:12  Now this I say, that every one
>of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and
>I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
>1 Corinthians 1:13  Is Christ divided? was Paul
>crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name
>of Paul?
>1 Corinthians 1:14  I thank God that I baptized
>none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
>1 Corinthians 1:15  Lest any should say that I had
>baptized in mine own name.
>1 Corinthians 1:16  And I baptized also the
>household of Stephanas: besides, I know not
>whether I baptized any other.
>1 Corinthians 1:17  For Christ sent me not to
>baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom
>of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made
>of none effect.
>1 Corinthians 1:18  For the preaching of the cross
>is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
>which are saved it is the power of God.
>1 Corinthians 1:19  For it is written, I will
>destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to
>nothing the understanding of the prudent.
>1 Corinthians 1:20  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?
>1 Corinthians 1:21  For after that in the wisdom
>of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it
>pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
>save them that believe.
>1 Corinthians 1:22  For the Jews require a sign,
>and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
>1 Corinthians 1:23  But we preach Christ
>crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and
>unto the Greeks foolishness;
>1 Corinthians 1:24  But unto them which are
>called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of
>God, and the wisdom of God.
>1 Corinthians 1:25  Because the foolishness of God
>is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is
>stronger than men.
>1 Corinthians 1:26  For ye see your calling,
>brethren, how that not many wise men after the
>flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are
>called:
>1 Corinthians 1:27  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;
>1 Corinthians 1:28  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:
>1 Corinthians 1:29  That no flesh should glory in
>his presence.
>1 Corinthians 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ
>Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
>righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
>1 Corinthians 1:31  That, according as it is
>written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
>Lord.
>
>
> &Toggle DBM
>
>
>[This text was retrieved from a program for Windows called God's Word
>For Windows, an easy to use database of the King James Bible. Anyone
>interested in this program should drop me a note and I will tell them
>where an evaluation copy may be obtained by anonymous ftp.]
>
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