A Fool Vs A Fool for Christ

The first type of fool in the Bible is the character that might be called the fool proper. Folly in a fallen world is obviously partly relativistic, and we are always wise to say, “Says who?” Different families and different parts of the world will find some jokes funny and others not, just as different communities and different nations will admire certain heroes and despise certain villains, but not others. Heroism, villainy and folly are all relative, but there is one fool in the Bible whose folly is seen as absolutely foolish and who is pronounced a real fool—the person who is truly,…