Did a Typo Teach Us Wisdom?

by Lee Duigon

February 1, 2024

I happened to be reading an Amazon customer review of one of my Bell Mountain books. The reader gave it five stars, so I knew what came next was only an accident. To wit:

“This story is about the battle of Goof vs. Evil.”

“Goof”? But wait—was there wisdom hidden in this typo? What does the Bible say about it?

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God… For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe… Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men… But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty” (I Corinthians 1:18-27).

When St. Paul wrote this, what could have seemed more foolish, more ridiculous, to the intellectuals of those days than a little fringe group of Jewish fools worshiping a crucified nobody whom they claimed to by the Son of God—and claiming that He had risen from the dead as the Savior of the entire human race? Where were their armed legions? Where was their war chest? These people were crazy!

Can “goof” defeat evil?

Are you kidding? Times without number, Goof has indeed defeated Evil. How many would-be rulers of the world were destroyed by their own foolishness—which at the time was hailed as wisdom? Surely the Third Reich was as rich and powerful, in our time, as the Roman Empire was in Paul’s. And what ever did Hitler more damage than his own folly in invading Russia?

The acclaimed wisdom of this world devours itself. Don’t tell me you expect anything good and lasting to come out of our 21^st Century bogus wisdom.

Really, now—where is transgender mania going to take us? Anywhere good? An even bigger howler, if such a thing were possible, is the pipe-dream of global government, administered by sinners, megalomaniacs, and fools. Yeah, sure—surgery that makes us sterile, the World Economic Forum calling the shots, erasing national borders, gain of function research to create new and deadlier diseases—what could go wrong? This is the wisdom of this fallen world.

“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” (v. 20)

Someday the whole Far Left globalist enterprise is going to come crashing down, after putting the whole world through the wringer.

Will we have learned our lesson then? Or will notions equally stupid arise to replace our current follies?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit—but check your worldly wisdom at the door. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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