Christians Are Not The Smartest People In The World

   A Paper, published in the academic Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Review, continues to demonstrate how more intelligent people are less likely to come to Christ. 

   These studies and reports have been consistently finding this phenomena since the early 20th century [1916]. Periodically they pop up and stimulate the debate. 

   What is that debate? Whether or not religious faith is universally desired, or needed. If the more intelligent among us do not find it appealing or necessary, what does that say? That the rest of us are clinging to religion, because of our lack of intelligence or because of our dependence upon something outside our own abilities or because of our gullibility?

   What none of these articles seem to notice is what God has already said about it: that "the foolishness of God is wiser than men;..."  That God "...hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty."  [I Cor. 1:25-27]

   Intelligent people find school easier, generally have greater appeal to employers, have greater natural success rates and therefore more wealth and social standing. With all this going on, what "need" do they have? The "need" they have is the same as all men, they are simply less likely to see it or to feel it. 

   The more intelligent among us also spend more time in school, statistically. Our schools are designed to militate against God. The extra conditioning adds to The Problem. There is also the desire / need to succeed at whatever is their chosen field. Education, Science, Business, and Politics are among the more attractive choices. What chance does someone have if they a) believe what the Bible says about the universe and, b) have higher that average moral standards?

   I'm not saying every intelligent person is immoral, simply that their world more often involves moral, social and academic standards foreign to Christianity.

   Evangelicals seem fixated on finding ways to bridge this gap or at least minimize it. The reality is: "The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;..." God is about destroying "...the wisdom of the wise and bringing to nothing the understanding of the prudent."  [I Cor. 1:18,19]

   Queen Victoria is credited with saying how much she appreciated the letter M. In Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, he stated: "...not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;...."  [I Cor. 1:26]

   We would do well to listen to what God says and stop trying to force the facts into our prejudicial presuppositions.