1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Man's Wisdom and Intelligence
18 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. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 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. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
Romans 1:18-32
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Luke 18:1-8
We Are to Persistently Seek the Truth
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Jesus asks when He returns will He still find faith on earth...I think that is a good question, in the way that nations have cultures and how culture sees Truth, the world, the universe, and nature...
St. Paul writes to us about God and nature -and God and His nature...God created nature...And in nature there is symmetry and grand designs...These designs can be seen in us and they can be seen all around us...These designs are all over the universe and gives it much of its beauty...Can you imagine seeing only on half of a tree, or one half of a flower?...There is beauty is this simple symmetry of nature...
Many scientists today, as well as others, do not give God much credit in the universal and the universal truths and designs in mathematics and nature...It sometimes seems to me, after looking at some of the designs of nature that are plain to see they speak of God....And all of these beautiful patterns and designs get suppressed and overlooked, and instead of being a part God's creation of nature, and the universal truths in mathematics and physics, they become things, and objects, and something as related to science...So, it seems to me, that we are being taught that nature is a part of science, instead of nature being a part of God...
According to St. Paul, God does not want to give all the wisdom to those labeled as wise...Sometimes God will frustrate the intelligent ones of the earth...No matter how smart and intelligent we have been in the past, man is still accumulating knowledge, and learning more about nature as well as other things...Man will accumulate more knowledge in ten years than he has right now...It seems our education system and just the overall current times and the current way of thinking is leading us more into science and maybe further away from our LORD...Societies and cultures are shaping the world and turning us more toward science and less towards God...But with the indwelt Holy Spirit that God has put into us, there is the restless heart seeking Him and it also seeks the mysteries of life, and the purpose of life...And eventually maybe in the far off future, with the help of our Father with His Son and our indwelt Holy Spirit, we will find the Truth...Love is the very nature of God, and He wants us to find Him and the Truth...