What is the main theme of 1 Corinthians chapter 2?
First Corinthians chapter 2 contrasts human wisdom with God's wisdom. It emphasizes that the wisdom of men is set against the things belonging to the wisdom of God, and that spiritual truth is taught by the Holy Spirit, remaining beyond the comprehension of the unbeliever.
Les explains that the whole theme of 1 Corinthians 2 is comparing the wisdom of men against the things that are of the wisdom of God. Verse 13 says these things are spoken not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. Verse 14 introduces the flip side word again. This book is a closed book to the unbeliever; he cannot comprehend it, it is beyond him and goes over his head. But for even the most infantile believer, it becomes understandable, and believers grow in understanding as they grow in Christian experience. The context also notes the continuing premise from Genesis into Ephesians that man in his natural state is spiritually dead by virtue of Adam's original sin.