The cross tells both Jew and Gentile that sin is not a superficial flseh wound. It commands them to submit to God’s greater wisdon – to stop taking their worldview from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and to take it instead from the tree of Calvary
Phil Moore
From the book “Straight to the Heart of 1 & 2 Corinthians: 60 Bite-sized Insights (The Straight to the Heart Series)”