Worldly wisdom has probably done more to hinder people from faith than it has to impel people toward faith. People know God through a simple story as Paul says, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. Blood shed to pay for humankind s sins. The deep love of the One who sacrificed himself for our sake. There s nothing sophisticated about this stuff.
Human wisdom asks for more.
The Jews wanted additional miraculous signs. The erudite Greeks demanded high-sounding philosophy. Today, people want a toothless, preferenceless God to endorse their selfishness and make them feel good. People know God the Father through God the Son Jesus Christ, and him crucified. God at His Strongest Paul writes, we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.