When gospel preachers preach to you do you find it offensive if they declare you sinful without even knowing you? Another way of expressing the gospel is to charge people with being human in nature when we should be spiritual in nature. The cross of Christ curses the human nature that leads to the kinds of 'fruits' that lead to death and so by Jesus being raised on a cross and dying there God was using this as a curse (like the bronze snake raised up on a pole by Moses to curse snake bites and so heal people bitten). This curse of the human condition is to cure us of it. The life lived by the human nature with its deeds that bear fruits that kill us spiritually is cursed and therefore cured by the holding up on a cross of wood of the sinless Christ so we can be free to live a spiritually fulfilled life bearing far better life-giving fruit. Gospel preachers have to admit to a kind of magic in what God does sometimes that is not hocus pocus but a real magi-like way of achieving things. It is worth remembering God is like this. Not all wisdom is ungodly wisdom. There's God's wisdom
