Is God Foolish? Is God Weak? Check Out This Rhetorical Turn of a Phrase in the Apostle's Writings to Get Our Attention! Employed Showing God's Superiority to Humankind! Check It Out . . .
- Dr. Roger D Duke
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A Devotional for Friday June 5, 2026
From the
Pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress
God’s Foolishness Wiser than Men
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” 1 Corinthians 1: 25.
That he suffered as a common person is true. By common I mean a public person, or one that presents the body of mankind in himself. [There is] . . . a multitude of scriptures [that] bear witness to [this], especially that fifth chapter of the Romans. Where . . . he is set before us as the head of all the elect, even as Adam was once head of all the world. Thus, he lived, and thus he died; and this was a mysterious act. And that he should die as a sinner, when yet himself did “no sin,” nor had any “guile found in his mouth,” made this act more mysterious (1 Peter 1: 19, 2: 22, 3: 18). That he died as a sinner is plain— “He hath made him to be sin. And the Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53). That . . . as to his own person he was completely sinless is also as truly manifest, and that by a multitude of scriptures. Now . . . that Christ Jesus should be thus considered and thus die was the great mystery of God. Hence Paul tells us, that when he preached “Christ crucified,” he preached not only the “wisdom of God,” but the “wisdom of God in a mystery,” even his “hidden wisdom.” (1 Corinthians 1: 24, 2: 7-8; Job 28: 20-21).
It is also so mysterious that it goes beyond the reach of all men, except those to whom an understanding is given of God to apprehend it. That one particular man should represent all the elect in himself and that the most righteous should die as a sinner. Yea, as a sinner by the hand of a just and holy God—is a mystery of the greatest depth!
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