The Power of a Fool
The Apostle, Paul, had his own version of trolls in his day. He writes in I Corinthians 1:25, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men.” His trolls called the message of a man dying on a cross to save people from their sin “foolishness.” Trolls in my world love religious posts. What a fertile arena for snide remarks and cute quips about those poor folks who believe in talking animals and magic plants in Eden that kill or give life. Say the trolls, “What a pathetic and foolish lot of people who believe in such a weird, sadistic, insensitive, etc. … God.”
The goal of the Bible is not to try to convince people that things make sense. Creating matter from absolutely nothing makes no sense at all. So if something really happened that makes no sense, there can be only one of two choices: things really can just magically pop into existence from nothing, or things must have been created by something or Someone who is not physical. And if the second is true, we are talking about a lot of power!
Psalm 2:4 says that “He who sits in the heavens laughs, and holds those in derision” who rant and rave, opposed to his power. So Christians do not need to get all bent out of shape over the sarcastic taunts of those who deny a God who is powerful enough to create a mature universe from nothing, and a mature human from scratch to top it off. And we are wasting our breath to argue with such trolls.
We may not be able to explain how it all came to be. God didn’t write the Bible as a textbook manual of how he did what he did. He isn’t interested in us knowing HOW he did things, or even WHY. He is interested in us accepting THAT he did it.
People often talk about karma or who gets the last laugh. If Christians are wrong, no one will be laughing in the end. But if God in his “foolishness” really did really set this all in motion, when it all winds down, those who reject the power of God to create will not be the ones laughing. And anyone who believes in his foolishness will have better things to do than wanting a fifty-yard line seat at the judgment day. I know which “fool” I am going to trust.
