The Wisdom of God and the Corinthians

The Corinthian church was rife with divisions, but Paul wisely recognized that this was merely a symptom of the true problem: The Corinthians were divided among themselves because they'd allowed themselves to drift away from their sense of their true identity as individuals and as a community. Their divisions were indicative of natural wisdom, and Paul now turned to their own personal and corporate experience as God's saints to further substantiate his claims concerning the fundamental antithesis between God's wisdom - which the Church is to affirm through its life as much as its doctrine - and the so-called wisdom of men.