Many mordern people find Christianity as a way of life that is chosen by those who are foolish, irrational, backward and those who believe in things without questioning. If you sit and start thinking deeply about this scenario, you will indeed see foolish things happened and are still happening even today. How does life sustain itself? How do human beings and animals live? It is foolish that both animals and humans live on dead things. Insects too. They eat dead things. Isn't that foolish? WE cannot eat meat if an animal doesnt die. Isn't that foolish too? Even plants have to die for us to have life after eatining them.
Now the Climax of all foolishness is when God, the almighty God comes down to His creation after the creation rebelling against Him, God becomes man and in Jesus Christ lives among His creation. The brightest of His creation, those clever ones, the sharp minds, the analytical minds, scrutinize Him, follow Him, investigate Him, dispute with Him,marvel at His miracles, eat the bread and fish that He foolishly multiplies, some refuse to follow Him and some follow but decided to cleverly go back to their trade-fishing after this God dies foolishly on a rugged cross. A shameful death designed for foolish people who coomitt grevoius mistakes like treason, blasphemy, and robbery.
This God is arrested after being betrayed by one clever guy, who thought wisely, that this guy who claims to be God is worth 30 pieces of silver. He again cleverly, plans and plots on how to identify this God to the brightest of all. The ones who came to arrest this foolish guy, were definately clever and wise. They arrested him at Night. He was foolish because He did not run away, he did not defend Himself, He was hunted down like a robber and did not know where to hide. Isn't this WISDOM?
Clever guys of this world would not be arrested just like that. His disciple called Peter was more clever than Jesus because he used the sword to cut the ear of one of those who had come to arrest this guy. This God was foolish because He did not know that tit for tat is a fair game, He was foolish because He did not know that the law allows you to kill in self defence, He was foolish too because he placed the ear back. He was foolish because all His diciples ran away and left Him alone NOT KNOWING HOW TO RUN AWAY AND SAVE HIS LIFE, if He were clever, he would have ran as fast as Usain Bolt afterall He is the one who created these fastest people, So He claimed.
The whole spectacle of FOOLISHNESS was displayed on the Cross outside the city and this God was smucked but could not tell who smucked Him. He was spat on, flogged kijinga kijinga tu. He claimed that He could demolish the Temple and Built it up in 3 days. Even this Foolish God could not save baby Jesus Christ when he was being sought out by Herode, and the parents of the Baby Jesus, like all cowards do, become a REFUGEE and went to hide in a Africa a Continent of the foolish black people full of diseases,and backward people.
Jesus Christ could not curry His cross uphill until He was helped by another FOOLISH man like Him from Africa called Simon. You know foolish people come from Africa. This foolish person did not volunteer to carry this( my perspective) cross but because he was Black and a slave, he was forced, he did not offer himself and therefore foolish to carry the CROSS.If he were clever, he should have reasoned out with them and proved to them that he was a free man and could not be forced to carry a cross that would be used to crucify a bastard whose father was not known. a Jew could not be forced to carry a cross, a free person could not be forced to carry a cdross for a foolish criminal who claimed to God. Only a foolish Slave could carry a Foolish Cross for a foolish God. You see? Only Foolish people can do this.
Then came a foolish Apostle called Paul. He was foolish because, he decided to follow a person he claims to have seen in a vision on his way to Damascus to do what the clever people do -persecute the foolish Christians- how can a whole lawyer decide to become homeless, abandone his family, never talk about his wife and children, quit his occupation and decided to walk arround preaching about Jesus Christ. A whole memeber of the Pharasees council in Jerusalem, A roman Citizen -not an undocumented allien- gathering around some young people like Timothy and Titus and teaching them about a foolish way of life where people drink the blood of a dead Man Jesus Christ, and eat his flesh. Wasn't this foolish?
This Foolish guy called Paul then wrote some 13 letters which form a big portion of the Bible. To demonstrate the essense of all these foolishness, in one of his many letters, he wrote this: 18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 20And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”…How did the foloish God make CHRISTIANS FOOLISH? The answer is in 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. I am FOOLISH, are you ? Faithful Ordinary Ordained Living in the Immortal Saviour's Hope.
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