There is a tension between the mind and the spirit. Though we need our mind to understand and we are to live God with our mind, it is with our spirit that we hear God, are led by God and believe in God.
There is also a difference between God's wisdom and human wisdom. God's wisdom brings life and can seem foolish to men.
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5
Our faith and trust in God is not anchored or built on human wisdom or it will fail and is not the faith that comes from God. Our faith must be built on God and his power alone. Otherwise it will fail.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
1 Corinthians 2:6
That is not to say that there isn't wisdom that our faith is built on our that God's good news isn't wise. On the contrary! The gospel is the wisdom of God! Yet God's wisdom is rejected by the world because human wisdom often fights against God as it elevates humans to the state of God and doesn't submit to God.
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians 2:12
God's Spirit teaches us and gives us wisdom from God sms understanding of God's ways.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV
It seems foolish to man that the eternal and unchanging God would come to earth and die. But God's wisdom is made clear by his Spirit as we understand that this is a demonstration of the depths of God's love for us and it is the ONLY way that God's justice and mercy could both be met.
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