The Stumbling Block and Rock of Offense is nothing more than the fact that we, Mankind, are incapable of reaching perfection of self and surroundings on our own. In fact, if we have anything to do with it, then all is lost.
The "offense of the cross" which Paul speaks of in Galatians is the acknowledgement that perfection must come and does come from a source outside of ourselves. All men - Jew, Gentile, whatever divisions you may see in the world - balk at such an idea; so they stumble over and around the fact, rather than resting on the Corner Stone of the foundation of God's perfect existence.
Check out these verses:
Psalm 69:22
Isaiah 8:13-15
Jeremiah 6:21
Romans 9:30-33 with Galatians 5:11
I Corinthians 1:22-24
I Peter 2:4-8
The "offense of the cross" which Paul speaks of in Galatians is the acknowledgement that perfection must come and does come from a source outside of ourselves. All men - Jew, Gentile, whatever divisions you may see in the world - balk at such an idea; so they stumble over and around the fact, rather than resting on the Corner Stone of the foundation of God's perfect existence.
Check out these verses:
Psalm 69:22
Isaiah 8:13-15
Jeremiah 6:21
Romans 9:30-33 with Galatians 5:11
I Corinthians 1:22-24
I Peter 2:4-8
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