First Corinthians
- Paul to the Corinthians about the Resurrection of the Dead.
- People in Corinth are questioning this resurrection of the body idea
o Yes, but how is it possible?
§ Molecules from the dead body become recycled in the universe.
§ Ancient people say, what about sailors who were lost at sea and fish eat their bodies.
· How is God going to pull all that stuff together and resurrect that body?
o In the ancient world, Penuma is a stuff/ It doesn’t refer to immaterial substance as it does later in Christian theology.
o Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God/
§ What he is saying is that the resurrected body he is expecting is not a flesh and blood bodies.
· The body that we will as followers of Christ, have when we are resurrected is a pneumatic body, not a flesh and blood body.
o It’s still a physical body because he believes that pneuma is matter.
Corinthian 15
- The Historical and Social Context of the Church in Corinth.
o Corinth is a very important city in the ancient Greek world.
§ Important throughway, both by land, b/c all trade and travel that went from Northern Greece to southern Greece had to go right through Corinth.
§ Corinth was blended of Greek and Rome
· Paul found that church in Acts 18:1-18
o Paul writes his letter to the Corinthians from Ephesus.
§ In 1 Corinthian 1:11 Who’s Chloe’s people?
· Obviously, women’s names.
o Members of Chloe’s household.
§ How about the status of them?
§ 1 Corinthians 1:26 we get our major clue, Wise, Powerful, Noble all three of these words are Greek status symbol word.
· Wise meaning educated
· Powerful meaning you are not the occupying government positions or anything.
· Noble birth
o The early church wasn’t so homogeneous when it comes to their social status level and they may have actually experienced conflicts in them
- Issues of Controversy in the Corinthian Church
o People are having their favorite Apostles but there are several other issues.
o Sexual Conducts – Man sleeping with the stepmother. Some men in the church visiting prostitute. They say that I’m Christian but What you do with the body is not important every guy got need Paul addresses those issues. Sex and Asceticism, which leads to issues of marriages and divorce.
o Court cases,
o The food offered to idols,
o Chapter 11: Women Praying without veiling their heads.
§ Paul has to address that he doesn’t say that women can’t pray in church
§ But he says if they are going to pray, they have to veil their head because of the angels.
o Chapter 12-14, Speaking in a tongue that Paul addresses.
§ In the earlier church they thought people speak in the other nation’s languages but nowadays it’s a whole different language.
· People who speak in tongues are speaking the angelic language and they were leaning it miraculously
- The roots of this controversy
o Does all this issue represent totally different arguments?
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVatCd_1xM&list=PL462B0F2345C29AFA&index=16