What is More Profitable: Man's Wisdom or God's Folly?

1 Corinthians 1:18-25
18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

An interesting point is made here that "the Greeks seek wisdom." What is interesting is the world still seeks wisdom and Christ crucified is still seen as folly (superstition, mythology, folklore, or even religion).

But if the saving, redemptive power of Jesus dying for my sins is folly, then I'm a happy fool.

Though we are always to be prepared for an answer to our faith, we are quite unable to argue anybody into heaven. Once again, from the text we see that Christians are "those who are called." Called is the operative word. God calls, we just are witnesses to His power in our lives - we learn His word, we live His word and He shines through us.