Message of faith: But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:24

With the arrival of the apostle Paul in Greece and the founding of the Churches of Thessalonica, Athens, and Corinth, a cultural clash occurred between Greek culture, a form of paganism, and the new faith in Jesus. This situation convinced the apostle Paul to write his letters to the different churches, since the message of Jesus up to that point was transmitted orally; Paul's spiritual letters were the first written texts of the New Testament.
And the first epistle to the Corinthians was a response to the conversion of many Greeks to this new way of thinking that carried within it the message of Christ, the Kingdom of God. That is why Paul tried to use elements that the new Christians already knew, such as wisdom, to introduce them to the faith. For the ancient Greeks, wisdom was one of the most important virtues, along with the contemplative life. These virtues were so important that they were considered somehow related to the ancient gods, as Aristotle taught in many of his books. That is why Paul spoke to the Greeks about the wisdom of Jesus and how, through this wisdom, every Christian could attain salvation and eternal life.
And it is by the excellence of wisdom that the first of the topics taught by Paul in the First Epistle to the Corinthians is the difference between worldly wisdom and wisdom inspired by the Holy Spirit. In this way, Paul used a similar resource taught by the apostle John, and presented Jesus as "son of man," that is, as the personification of wisdom itself. And with these words, the apostle wrote about this new wisdom that the new Christians were to receive through faith: "But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God" 1 Corinthians 1:24.
With this, the apostle Paul, with his spiritual authority, warned the Greek-born Christians that they should not be led astray by worldly philosophies, but only by the example of Christ's life, the source of all wisdom and human excellence. Because ultimately, the true faith and true wisdom consist in the effort of every believer to be more like Jesus, every day of his own life.

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