I've spent significant time, energy and
resources learning the proper way to talk about this foolish message. It seems
ironic to me that maybe a good bit of theology or God talk (theos=God
logos=word) is about making the foolish message sound wise. By that I mean (you
see how it happens) religious professionals (or is that the professionally
religious) carefully define this foolishness so as to fit it into an orthodox
box, lest we sound silly and stray into heresy. Don’t get me wrong, how we talk
about God matters, but the cross is not a theological construct. It is a
sadistic instrument of torture conceived by the wise and powerful human mind.
And in Jesus God decided foolishly in weakness to die on one. I think I’ll stop
and stay with that thought for awhile before dressing up the ugliness of the
cross in carefully constructed theologizing.
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