RCL reading for Sunday, March 15, 2009:
Excerpt from The New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
1 Corinthians 15:18-2
18 For the message about 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,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.
22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,
23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
QUESTIONS
In verse 19, where is “it written”?
In verses 22-24, a dichotomy seems to exist between Jews and Greeks, and Jews and Gentiles. Are Greeks and Gentiles the same thing? What exactly is a Gentile? Does the meaning change?
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This seems to be the very heart of the Easter message. No human reason can encompass this totally new creation. What is the difference between a stumbling block and foolishnes? What is the differnce between a Jew and a Greek? Any?
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