access to God and his nature only through his revelation of himself. The Epistemology of Faith The second point of the theology of the cross focuses on how we know this foolish and weak God. The Jews demanded signs, Paul reported. They wanted to have empirical proof. The Greeks demanded wisdom. They wanted a logical explanation (1 Cor. 1:18–2:16). Both Jews and Greeks wanted to know God on the basis of a process that human creatures control. They wanted to pin God down on their own terms. “Prove it”