In 1 Corinthians 1:19–21 it becomes clear that God has made foolish the wisdom of the world. The world’s failure to know God through wisdom is no accident…Such a state of affairs reflects God’s wisdom, for if the knowledge of God came through intellectuals, through those who were gifted rhetorically, then those who were scholars and those who were gifted could boast that they were superior to the rest of humanity.
1 Then they would boast in their own strength and wisdom and not in God’s work and grace. The policy of God is to show that redemption is by grace, undeserved grace. Whoever receives salvation can only give glory to God.
25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;