Sentence:  Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '' , or , as is also commonly implied , that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same <WSD>thing</WSD> ? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence