This verse is also often misapplied by many who think the gospel consists only of the crucifixion of Jesus, but Paul taught it is essential to believe both that Jesus is the Messiah (Christ) and that he was crucified for us.
Unfortunately, many rely on their own reasoning instead of the “testimony of God” of which they remain largely ignorant. It was the same ignorance which led the zealously religious Jews to crucify Jesus. This ignorance was prophesied in Isaiah (ch.64:4) and is quoted here by the apostle.
The statement that “the things God hath prepared for them that love him hath not entered into the heart of man” does not mean we cannot know these things but that man cannot discern them because of his own natural thinking. These things are a “mystery” (meaning a secret) but this secret was known to the apostles by God’s Spirit, and is now made known to us by their writings.
The apostles did not speak “man’s wisdom” but what “the Holy Spirit teacheth”, and we are in the very privileged position of having the words of God in our possession so that, by comparing scripture with scripture, we can know the mind of the Lord and develop in ourselves “the mind of Christ”.
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Waiting for response for 1 Corinthians 2:1-2Paul did not bring “the wisdom of men” to the disciples, but “the testimony of God”, as he declared: “I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified”.