I suggest this definition of the “wisdom of the world”: it is the use of the human mind to achieve and maintain a ground for boasting before God and man. Now it begins to become really clear why merely human wisdom regards the cross of Christ as foolishness. The death of Christ on the cross is such a radical indictment of the hideousness of our sinfulness that human wisdom has to mount all its biggest guns to destroy the cross, lest it lose its ground for boasting.
(The quote above is from a July 13, 1980, sermon titled "The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God" by John Piper. © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org)
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