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NASB | 1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 1:25 [This is] because the foolishness of God [is not foolishness at all and] is wiser than men [far beyond human comprehension], and the weakness of God is stronger than men [far beyond the limits of human effort]. |
Bible Question:
Question regarding 2 Samual 11 Uriah was a good person because he did not enjoy the company of his wife while the Ark and his friends were out in the open field. I would consider him a righteous man and David was a Premeditated murderer , yet David got away with killing him and several others. David also was allowed to have Uriah's wife after he killed Uriah. This is deeply troubling to me, My question is why didn't God help Uriah, where was God for Uriah? |
Bible Answer: Garywiffler, Your question is about God's overlooking apparent injustice. I've just read Elie Wiesel's "Night", the story of the destruction of his family in Aushwitz and Birkenau. A devout Jew in childhood, he survived the camps to become an atheist. The book has caused me no mean examination of my faith in the Faith. I think it's a good thing to fire away at the Faith, to not be afraid to hammer every doubt you have on it; if you don't, it seems to me, your faith can devolve into superstition. I think you are right to consider Uriah a righteous man. I don't think God overlooked Uriah's faithful obedience. Here's from Homily 52 on the Gospel of Matthew, by John Chrysostom: "But that I may give you another demonstration of what I have said, greater than this, let us again in the instance of David himself try the reasoning on the opposite side. For this man who being injured was so strong, afterwards upon committing an injury became on the contrary the weaker party. At least, when he had wronged Uriah, his position was changed again, and the weakness passed to the wrong doer, and the might to the injured; for he being dead laid waste the other's house. And the one being a king, and alive, could do nothing, but the other, being but a soldier, and slain, turned upside down all that pertained to his adversary. Would ye that in another way also I should make what I say plainer? Let us look into their case, who avenge themselves even justly. For as to the wrong doers, that they are the most worthless of all men, warring against their own soul; this is surely plain to every one. "But who avenged himself justly, yet kindled innumerable ills, and pierced himself through with many calamities and sorrows? The captain of David's host. For he both stirred up a grievous war, and suffered unnumbered evils; not one whereof would have happened, had he but known how to command himself." Colin |