Paul letters are Christ centered, the human Word of God, the one who has revealed the Father and his plans to save mandkind

Paul wanted to hear only righteousness, love, faith and hope in those eklessia in Christ Jesus and hearing other matters of idols, adulterous, greedy etc as from Ephesians 5:

Paul, right off the bat, wanted to be completely impartial to the ekklesia in his preaching. He was only bringing the Gospel and image of Christ to the Corinthians.

This statement showed Paul definitively abandoned this world wisdom, he himself abandoned high position he could achieved in pharisee’s hierarchy, following a sect created by a crucified man.

“For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” – “decided” -Greek is ‘krino’, denotes a conscious act of the will. Here it means “to resolve”, “ determined”, “ to make a definite decision”.

Paul’s decision as to his new method of labour was not an idea at the moment, but a carefully thought-out plan formed before going to Corinth. At Athens he had used scholarly argumentation and philosophy to combat the heathen idolatry of the Greeks. As he reviewed his experience at Athens, Paul decided to adopt a different method of preaching in Corinth. He planned to avoid learned discussions and detailed arguments, and to present the simple story of Jesus and His atoning death. He preached Christ crucified in spite of the fact that the idea of a crucified Saviour was an offense to both the Jews and Greeks (see 1:23).

At this point in the letter it does seem that Paul was determined, when he visited, not to engage in arguement or divisions. Later he seems to become more assertive in his writing

The term used in the annotation above is very apt.

‘Paul makes the conscious decision to make Christ the center of his being’

Paul uses the term “knowing the crucified Jesus”..which also has a very deep meaning.
Like what Mary tells the angel,when she is told that she is carrying our Lord Jesus.
Luk 1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

Paul was all about teaching and preaching about Jesus. He wanted know other distractions.

I do think this is an example of how he tempers a message according to his audience

I like the “intentionally abandoned” term because Paul was a well-educated and devout Pharisee. He could choose to boast in or rely on his “head knowledge” and his accomplishments in fulfilling the law. However, he makes the choice to leave all that and focus on the cross of Jesus in its power to forgive, save, and redeem.

Knowing how the idolised knowledge and learning he was prepared to not use his education in his discourse, but only what has been revealed to him through Jesus Christ? A very gutsy move, I would have been tempted to stick to texts, history and academia as far as possible for this audience

This is Paul earliest proclamation of the crucified Christ or the resurrected Christ. Paul’s understands himself as followers of Christ through his crucifixion and death. No other Gospel, this is the original Gospel tradition in Paul’s time.

Paul had just left Athens when he came to Corinth and was troubled by the talking of ideas as the focus of desire (Acts 17) by the time he got to Corinth he had abandoned reasoning as the Greeks pursued only debate, and focus strictly on the crucifixion

Ailsa: Paul reiterates that his message was only Christ crucified.