How may an idea be simultaneously foolish and wise? When wisdom is discounted or dismissed because it is not understood, when one's worldview cannot account for it. This is like the man who finds a diamond but thinks it is just a piece of cut glass and throws it away. Or, when foolishness is falsely esteemed as "wisdom"--"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death" (Proverbs 14:12).
Man's pride and the finite, flawed limitations of his reason and grasp of reality make a dangerous combination, made all the more hazardous by the influence of his will. We have an enormous capacity for self-deception, for seeing reality as we wish it to be. And when we persist in blindly following our own way we will end up in a ditch.
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