Paul is rebuking people just like us with heavenly wisdom, he starts out by appealing to their own religious experience, he says in essence look around the church, you yourselves see with your own eyes that there aren't many worldly wise, or mighty, or noble people. Their churches, like our churches were not packed full of the celebrities of their age. I'm not sure what section of Corinth corresponded to our Beverly Hills, but I already know that their own particular 90210 wasn't the beating heart of the living church, just as ours isn't.
Paul's argument is that this isn't a coincidence. It was God's sovereign will not to effect salvation the world's way.
So too, it is not and never has been God's will to bring about salvation using the mighty men and wisdom of this world. For instance, who were the men that Jesus chose to carry his gospel message to the four corners of the earth? Statesmen? Authors? Philosophers? Politicians? No, a bunch of fishermen and social outcasts! God chose not the mighty, but a bunch of manifestly weak and lowly men. Men were amazed when they heard fishermen like Peter declaring the gospel of grace with power and eloquence, Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
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I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
