Turncoat
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| Quote | 1 Corinthians 1:21-25 (New International Version)
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. |
I'd forgotten this gladly, but saw some of it in a Powerpoint show by Bob Marks, Science, God, and Christ: Genesis and Science: Compatibility Extraordinaire.
I regard Jesus as an incredible teacher -- particularly the Jesus of The Gospel of Thomas. As for Paul, the author of the passage above, I'd say that the depiction of him as a huckster in The Last Temptation of Christ is about right. The "Christ crucified" is of course also the Christ resurrected, so the notion that "what was preached" had no "miraculous signs" is garbage. Paul got carried away by his own rhetoric, which he of course meant to be taken as very wise.
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I never give them hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's hell. — Harry S Truman
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