SIN:
FOLLY OF; WORLD: CONTEMPT FOR CHRISTIANS

The world has divided men into two classes, the stupid good people and the clever wicked ones.…

In the Holy Scriptures things are quite the opposite. There righteousness is always associated with wisdom and evil with folly. Whatever other factors may be present in an act of wrongdoing, folly is one that is never absent. To do a wrong act a man must for the moment think wrong; he must exercise bad judgment.…

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Psalm 14:1–3; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 24:24; Isaiah 5:20–23; Romans 1:22

Man: The Dwelling Place of God, 46, 48.