Question 1

What is the “wisdom of God in a mystery” in this passage?

Accepted Answer

The “wisdom of God in a mystery” is God’s saving plan in the gospel, centered on Jesus Christ and His death on the cross. It is called a mystery not because it is strange, but because it was once hidden and could not be worked out by human thinking. God planned this wisdom before the world for the glory of those who belong to Him. Now He has made it known through the preaching of Christ and by the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers.

Question 2

Who are the “princes of this world” who crucified the Lord of glory?

Accepted Answer

The “princes of this world” are the human rulers and leaders who, in their own kind of wisdom, judged Jesus and had Him crucified. They did not understand who He really was or what God was doing through Him. If they had truly known God’s plan and recognized Jesus as the Lord of glory, they would not have treated Him as they did. Their choice shows how empty human wisdom is when it is cut off from God’s light.

Question 3

What does “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard” mean here?

Accepted Answer

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard” means that God’s plans and blessings in the gospel could never be reached by human senses, study, or imagination alone. People could not work out on their own how God would save and bless those who love Him. These things had to be prepared by God and then shown by Him. In this passage, it points to the truths of salvation and the blessings given in Christ, which God now makes known by His Spirit to those who belong to Him.

Question 4

How does the Holy Spirit reveal the deep things of God?

Accepted Answer

The Holy Spirit reveals the deep things of God by knowing God fully, the way a person’s own spirit knows their inner thoughts. Just as no one truly knows what is inside another person, no one can know God’s thoughts except His Spirit. The Spirit makes these things known to the apostles and to believers, especially through the message of Christ. He helps people understand what God has freely given, opening their hearts so that the gospel is no longer foolishness but seen as God’s wise and good plan.

Question 5

What is the difference between the natural man and the spiritual man?

Accepted Answer

The natural man is a person without the Holy Spirit, still ruled by the world’s way of thinking. To such a person, the things of God’s Spirit seem foolish, and they cannot really understand them because these things are known in a spiritual way. The spiritual man is someone who has received the Spirit of God. This person can weigh and judge spiritual things rightly, because the Spirit has opened their mind. Others, who lack the Spirit, cannot truly judge or measure this person’s spiritual understanding.

Question 6

What does it mean that believers have “the mind of Christ”?

Accepted Answer

Having “the mind of Christ” means that believers, through the Holy Spirit, share in Christ’s way of thinking about God, salvation, and life. It does not mean they know everything God knows, but that they have been given a new understanding shaped by Christ’s teaching and work. They can now see the cross as God’s wisdom, not foolishness. They begin to value what Christ values and to see things from God’s point of view, instead of being driven only by the world’s ideas and desires.

Question 7

Why can’t human wisdom on its own understand God’s plan in this passage?

Accepted Answer

Human wisdom on its own starts from what people can see, hear, and reason out. God’s plan in the gospel began before the world and is far higher than what people could design. The rulers who seemed wise could not see who Jesus was and ended up crucifying Him. This passage shows that without God’s Spirit, people will miss or reject His way of saving. We need God to speak, and we need His Spirit to open our hearts, or we will call His wisdom foolish and cling to our own ideas.

Question 8

How can this teaching about spiritual and natural people apply to my life?

Accepted Answer

This passage invites you to stop trusting in your own ideas or in what the world calls wise when it comes to God. It calls you to ask God for His Spirit and to listen to what He has said about Jesus. If you belong to Christ, it reminds you that you have been given the Spirit so you can understand what God has freely given. Instead of trying to impress others with clever words, you can seek to think with the mind of Christ and let His wisdom shape your choices and values.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

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1 Corinthians 2:6

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

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