1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
For the message of the cross is foolishness (mōria) to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God — the diairesis is absolute: two kinds of humans, two opposite verdicts on the cross. 'Foolishness' (mōria) is not mere silliness but logical incoherence: a crucified messiah contradicts power. Yet for 'those being saved' (sōzomenoi, present passive), the cross is dynamis theou (God's power actively at work). The question is which world's logic one inhabits.
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