1 Corinthians 1:25
"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. "
So many people thing you have to be a dummy or ignorant to believe in God. I don't like to think of myself as a dummy. I am an engineer and an analytical thinker and when I was first seriously pondered the existence of God, I was overwhelmed with the extreme scientific evidence and the sheer simplicity all at the same time.
Many famous thinkers of our time believed in God. Blaise Pascal, Sir Issac Newton, Michael Faraday, Robert Boyle, Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Albert Einstein to name a few. Now I have to add that while some of these men did not believe in a personal God, they did not let their intellectual wisdom cloud their spiritual thinking.
That is the problem people have today. They think they are too smart to believe in the Bible or to believe in God or to believe that God came in the form of the Son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins. Paul said further in 1 Cor 1 that Christ crucified was a stumbling block to the Jews and Greeks because the Jews wanted signs and wonders, which Jesus refused to give when they asked and the Greeks wanted wisdom. Both of these were confused by the work on the cross. When the Pharisees asked for a sign, Jesus said the only sign He would give was His resurrection by referencing Jonah and his spending 3 days in the belly of the fish.
There will come a day when all man's wisdom and worldly intelligence will be compared to the "foolishness" of Christ crucified and will fall away and leave those smart, intellectual, wise and intelligent people eternally separated from God forever.
We simply need to just surrender to God and seek a personal relationship with Him through Jesus Christ.
Mike
