1 Corinthians Flashcards
(27 cards)
Corinthozmai
port/ sailors
Chloe
refers to members of Corinth; faced issues with factions serving human leaders, incest, suing each other in secular courts, “anything goes” philosophy/ immorality
Outline of 1 Corinthians
1: 1-9 Epistolary introduction
1: 10- 6:20 Paul’s response to reports about Corinthian church
7: 1- 16:9 Paul’s response to questions from Corinthians
16: 10-24 Epistolary Closing
Paul’s response to division in the Corinthian church (1:10- 4:21)
“Christians are the temple of God, and DO NOT destroy it!” (3:19)
Paul’s response to the misunderstanding of freedom in Christ with incestuous relationships and lawsuits (5:1- ^:20)
“Expel the wicked man from among you” (5:13)
“Why not rather be cheated” (6:7)
“Your body is atemple of the Holy Spirit” (6:19)
Paul’s solution to “fully actualized salvation now”
“Salvation YET to be fully realized”
Paul’s solution to “ body and spiritual purity”
“Bodily resurrection- body is home to the Holy Spirit”
Paul’s solution to “we are FREE therefore all things are lawful”
“All things are lawful, but not everything is good for ‘Christ’s body”
libertinism
salvation = present experience that renders a need for final judgment
only spirit matters so indulge the body/ physical; adultery and prostitution
asceticism
only spirit matters so do not indulge body/physical; no sex for married couples
Paul’s response to the “greatest gift”
“don’t be ignorant” (12:1) about spiritual gifts
“LOVE unites and builds up edification” (14:12)
Paul’s solution to food sacrificed to idols, to eat or not to eat?
“Idols have no power but if what you eat causes others to stumble don’t do that”
Paul’s response to social divisions in Lord’s Supper
“wait for ‘one another’; do not humiliate the poor” (11:33-34)
Corinthian Christian major problems
divisions in the church, incestuous relationship, church tolerance, abuse of spiritual gifts and the Lord’s Supper
Paul claims the only thing worth knowing is
Christ and Him crucified
What characterization best describes the Corinthian congregation?
A fractious church with numerous problems
Instead of advocating for their own personal rights, Paul suggests Corinthians
Consider other people first
What does Paul teach the Corinthians about marriage and sex?
Celibacy is preferable to marriage
issues that divide the Corinthian church
boasting in sexual freedom, eating food offered to idols, taking one another to court
Paul writes to 1 Corinthians in response to
reports from Chloe’s people, a letter written to Paul from Corinthian church and reports from Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achichus ( who delivered a letter to Paul)
Paul’s stay and ministry in Corinth, according to Acts
stayed for at least 18 months, with a Jewish- Christian couple named Priscilla and Aquila, and converted at least 2 leaders of Jewish synagogues
Corinth was the capital of the Roman province
Achaia
Divisions in Corinthian church seems to be based on
Corinthians identifying themselves in terms if allegiance to wise and powerful Christian leaders
1 Corinthians 1:15 emphasizes
those who are raised by Christ will have new, glorified bodies
