For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
— 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
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I used to think you learn less and less as you grow older, since you've already learned up all there is to learn. Turns out the older you get, the more there is to learn.
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The Bible says God made Solomon the wisest man on earth who has ever lived and will ever live. Take a second to consider the magnitude of what that means. If we take it literally, that means that he was and is and forever will be the wisest man to have walked the earth. No human from now till the end of time will possess greater wisdom than he had. And yet he strayed from the path of righteousness and turned away from God. What does that say about worldly wisdom? What it says to me is that wisdom isn't the key to righteousness - and that the sum of all earthly wisdom is infinitesimal compared to divine knowledge. A punctuation mark in the book of life. An atom of insight in an ocean of truth.
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.”
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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