Please read as much as you can of I Corinthians. If you are short of time, read Chapters 1-3, Chapters 6-7, and Chapters 12-13. Choose any one verse in I Corinthians you think particularly interesting, important, or hard to understand, and explain why you think this verse interesting, important, or hard to understand.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
I Corinthians
Please read as much as you can of I Corinthians. If you are short of time, read Chapters 1-3, Chapters 6-7, and Chapters 12-13. Choose any one verse in I Corinthians you think particularly interesting, important, or hard to understand, and explain why you think this verse interesting, important, or hard to understand.
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I found the passage on divisions of the church pretty interesting starting with 1 Corinthians 1:10. Peter is telling the people that that the church should be completely united. He goes on to say that following a certain apostle and only a certain apostle is wrong. Christians are not baptized as disciples of the apostles, rather as disciples of Jesus. This got me thinking that perhaps Paul was worried that a division would occur like in the Jewish church with the Pharisees and Sadducees because he goes back to this whole unity thing a few times in 1 Corinthians.
ReplyDeleteI found the passage from chapter three to be rather interesting. Especially one of the metaphors that is used, 1 Corinthians 3:2 "I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed you are still not ready." This quote at first really caught my interest because of how visual it was and how I was able to visualize it. And it also helped me to better understand what the divisions of the church meant and was talking about. There was a division because converts were either joining Peter, Apollos, Paul, or Christ. This was causing a major problem, since the church should have been united.
ReplyDeleteI found 1 Corinthians 13 very interesting as a whole, but the first three verses were the ones that I found the most interesting. Paul is showing that love is greater than any spiritual gift. You can have all the knowledge and faith in the world, but if you don't have love, they are worthless.
ReplyDeleteI am with Ian on this one, however I am a huge fan of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. This is a verse that is very special to me. When my wife and I got married, this was the verse that we said to one another. I know it is sappy and a lot of married couples recite this verse, but we have a framed copy of the verse hanging on our bedroom wall. To me, this is one of if not the most important verse in the entire book of 1 Corinthians.
ReplyDeleteI thought Corinthians 7:1-16 was very interesting. This chapter is very detailed about what you should do for marriage. Paul really describes many situation in a marriage and says the correct way to deal with them. I find it interesting that he says at the end, "if those who are not believers decide to leave, let them leave." I thought that was a very powerful statement.
ReplyDeleteNot to seem like I'm jumping on the band wagon here but, I also really enjoy 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. Seeing as I've been single my whole life (I wish that was a joke) I'm not sure why this verse jumps out at me, maybe it's just the hopeless romantic in me that enjoys this verse but I also think that it's also just interesting to see how this can be applied to everyday life as well and not just romantic relationships. I remember when pastor Adam Ost ( the former youth pastor at the church I attend) talked about how he used this verse as a daily reminder for his daily life. he would ask things like how have I loved patiently today or how have I loved unselfishly today, and so on. It's just an interesting way to look at these verses in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI Corinthians 1:25 (NIV) "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength".
ReplyDeleteI find this passage particularly interesting. Basically, whatever man tries to pass off as a great, God's worse is better yet. It is also applied to Christians, then and now. "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." (I Corinthians 1:27 NIV) This gives me great joy! ; There is no need for me to be a great orator like David, a strong man like Samson, or as wise as Solomon. I can just be me and that's more than enough.
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I found the first 13 verses of chapter 10 to be most interesting. Paul is talking about Israel’s history, how they messed up, and how the Corinthians would be able to learn from that. This makes it seem that there were Jews living in Corinth…. Greeks surely wouldn’t have known anything about how they put Christ to the test and were destroyed by serpents (vs 9) or what the “cloud and sea” are that he talks about in verse 2. It seems that there were Gentiles and Jews living in Corinth, and having some disputes, and Paul was writing to the Jews more specifically in chapter 10.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the topic of the division of the church in Corinthians 1 to be really interesting. Paul is urging all Christians to stay united, so they do not divide and muddy up what Christianity is all about. Given the history of Jewish faith, Paul clearly doesn't want more divisions and fighting. I Was really surprised to read about this specific mention of division in the church, given the history of the Christian faith, and all of the major divisions that have happened. It really makes me wonder if anyone actually read this passage before events like the Crusades.
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