Preaching about the cross sounds foolish to those who are dying in sin. But it is the power of God to those of us who are being saved from the punishment of sin. —1 Corinthians 1: 18, NLV
For the world, it makes no sense. Not that we live as mere Pollyannas that never understand the depth of suffering and the distortions we puny humans must overcome, no. However, to whom is the Presence closer by to understand that the greatest meaning of life is found in an instrument of death? Someone who cannot be seen...Someone who cannot be called at the merest whim...It definitely makes no sense.
For the Jews, bound together by uphill laws that nobody, not even them, could follow, was crazy. For Greeks, used to debate the strangest philosophies and salacious fantasies their minds found cumbersome enough to do so, it would weigh their human minds down when they could never fathom such an extreme course of action. Romans, obsessed with their power and might, took offense that Someone they ensnared to death would be kept alive in the hearts of the people who very much wanted to kill him in the first place! Why would someone find hope in death?
Foolishness indeed.