“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.” (Galatians 3:1)
The core of the Gospel is not a complex philosophical framework. In fact, to many it sounds like pure foolishness. A God who becomes man and then allows Himself to be killed? And then He rises from the dead? Surely you don’t believe that! Let alone build your life on the conviction that this crucified and risen Jesus is your King and Savior….
Paul is aware that people would like to hear a different, more ‘educated’ message. Yet he stands firm and continues to preach about “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” This is “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles” (1 Corinthians 1:23), but this is and remains the life-saving truth.
Now that the Galatians no longer want to put that truth at the center, Paul says they are “foolish” themselves. They may think themselves wise and prudent, but their supposed wisdom blinds them to the truth.
Even today, Christians are often considered naive and ignorant. But in fact, it is incredibly arrogant to think that we humans would know better than the Lord God. “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Corinthians 1:25).
Where do you seek wisdom? And how does it relate to the message of the Bible?