Do you know anyone who is just too smart to believe in Christ? I always smile when people assume that one must be a Neanderthal to believe in the gospel. This is the same gospel that C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Dallas Willard believed.
In recent days I have found myself in the cities where Paul ministered. In Athens, they prided themselves in wisdom. Paul dialogued with the intelligentsia of Athens on the Areopagus. Some believed and others laughed at him.
Perhaps his arrival in Corinth, afterward, led to a tactical change. He decided that among them, he would resolve to know nothing except Christ and his crucifixion. Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth and pointed out that God did not save them because they were smart. In fact the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of people.
If we could completely comprehend God with our finite minds then he would cease to be infinite. Please do not misunderstand me: Christians do not check our minds at the door. But some truths come to us as God reveals them. Or as John would say in his gospel: seeing is not believing, but believing is seeing. Do you believe? You will see!
