{"id":5012,"date":"2026-08-20T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:53:53","slug":"foolish-or-wise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/foolish-or-wise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish or Wise?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God&#8217;s wisdom&#8230;the innocent for the guilty&#8230;salvation by faith not works&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say, \u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Corinthians 1:18-19 NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbible.com%2Fbible%2F116%2F1co.1.18-19.NLT%3Ffbclid%3DIwcGRvZgVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFQV05MVWV2ZGlPNFdCWnVVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnp4_OdfG6P70rOaYeLpbsGlsxNxQDTVsJu-QyRTZ4foI8OyB3vkRhqA-FVg_aem_w95LioguIBBuvHA7r0iS7g&amp;h=AUCE4YiPCza3zjhyhJ_Ze9-4z4CKX1hsKkyUGigRXTEwankBVUx1PqihaIlVe1r_eEuVZ26rAgD_hDqdUrgb0Wzk39lixwo1mRf6tbqM6pDgiD2NsV25YKQ-becxKSX_NTa-juxww83cQQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AUDGGO3vYWXaUqECpfYjpKX0UVqBDPOYM0wGyvDq8Y7Mzg2IxJNN4USqpVzxgWO9ZGQVpjWCaaqnDLW2ss1nJZWmIWErECbggjk_gDRQcikoYTK05t-wmkIXPgTUVlvf2zhJcD2_SsqBNR3H0Z9Fk9NilD5W_kpdMJ57kZKtdtRAGrtn_6titrvkj3xwwJi6kD1qjkKS7wmOSpN0EXQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/116\/1co.1.18-19.NLT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/116\/1co.1.18-19.NLT\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s wisdom&#8230;the innocent for the guilty&#8230;salvation by faith not works&#8230; The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say, \u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thanti-riess-U_b-eSviHvs-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}