Week 4 Assignment

Sorry this is late.

God asks questions to benefit the people he is talking with. An obvious benefit is that this allows people to feel involved and maintain a interactive relationship with God. God also asks questions as a teacher. Our teachers and professors use this same method today by asking students questions that the profs already know the answers to. If God wants someone to learn one of the best ways is to ask questions. God can also ask questions to help people confess sins(Genesis 3), rethink their actions(1 Samuel 16:1), and come to a better understanding of Him(Luke 9:20). It is easy to see that the whole purpose of an all knowing being is to help the people he is talking to because he already has all the answers. Let us praise this all knowing God for interacting with us in this way.


In 1 Corinthians 1:21 Paul is talking about the death of Christ on a cross. This does not seem like folly to us but it was to the people at that time. It is inconceivable that a god would be killed by human beings if you are following the wisdom of this world instead of the wisdom of God. God's wisdom is "the ability to devise perfect ends by the most perfect means." God's wisdom is Christ on the cross. This is folly according to man but perfect wisdom according to God. God sees the entire picture while we only see a small snapshot. This is why things that will look pointless and foolish to us in that moment can actually have far greater meaning when looking at the big picture. As C S Lewis pointed out, there was a deeper magic that the world did not know about taking place on that cross. It was the perfect wisdom of God.