| The possibility of knowing God and of understanding his ways does not belong to any human being as an essential component of his or her being. The distance is too great; our self-centeredness is too deep. And nothing in “the wisdom of this age”(v.6) can help us. A wisdom proper to this age is …one that arises out of and is marked by rebellion against God; it represents (however splendid and spiritual-or scientific-it may appear) the creature’s attempt to secure his position over against the Creator; in a world it is (as far as men are concerned) man-centered. |
-D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, p.53
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