1 Corinthians, chapter 2, Verse 3-15
3 I
came to you in weakness and fear
and much trembling, 4 and
my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, 5 so that your faith might rest not on
human wisdom but on the power of God.
It is God’s desire that
we be wise not in the way of the world but in the ways of eternity.
Human wisdom[1]
Greek
tradition of wisdom was based in argumentation's. The Greeks lived to argue.
Arguments (discussions) & logics were entertainments. Interests in
philosophies and rhetoric was based not only what is said, but how it is said. Always
looking for something profound (deep meaning)
Jews have
their wisdom tradition which includes the wisdom Literature's.
1. Job – story of a man who did right & suffers
2. Psalms – classic wisdom, praise, laments, etc
3. Proverbs – classic wisdom: do right & no suffering
4. Ecclesiastes – meaning of life
5. Song of Songs – intimate relationship with God
Gnostics
tradition of wisdom and knowledge was a heresy in the early church, a bad
theology based on “Secret knowledge” that is needed for salvation. All matters
are evil, spirit is good. Gnostics denied the humanity of Christ “For Christ
did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel –not with words of (human)
wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power (made void)” “For the
message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who
are being saved, it is the power of God.” The Cross – is the Message. “For the
foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is
stronger than man’s strength.”
Feast of St James the Greater, Apostle[2]
JAMES,
by birth a Galilean, a son of Zebedee and Salome, was brother to St. John the apostle,
with whom he was called by Jesus to follow Him. He was present at the transfiguration
on Mount Tabor, at the raising of the daughter of Jairus from the dead, and other
like miracles, and at the bloody sweat in the Garden. After the sending of the Holy
Ghost he preached the doctrines of Jesus in Judea, Samaria, and in Jerusalem, where
Herod caused him to be beheaded in the year 44. His body was brought to Compostella,
in Spain, where it is venerated by vast numbers of the faithful, who make pilgrimages
to his grave. St. James was the first of the apostles who shed his blood for
Christ.
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