Writing these blogs cause me to remember how to spell Corinthians correctly.
1 Corinthians 5:1 - "It is actually reported that there there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentitles"
I think Paul just pretty much dissed the jews. they have immoralities, sexual immoralities that even the Gentitles don't even know about they haven't even heard of this. it's like that askaninja thing where it's like explaining the nerd ninja and he says you to "it's web...candle...plus a monkey" it's like they have a sin and when they explain it to the Gentitles and the Gentitles are like ...what are you talking about. where in that situation it's like explaining final fantasy VIII to a lemon. yes i was watching some of this askaninja stuff on youtube. but the main point i think is that Paul pretty much disses the jews.
i didn't get much from this chapter or i didn't get as much as i did in the other chapters but at the end of this chapter i think it says that Paul says to get away from these people cause if you were to get close with people you will surely fall. "put away from yourselves the evil person."
Showing posts with label 1 Corinthians 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1 Corinthians 5. Show all posts
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
people to eat with (d.chang ch. 5)
sorry it took so long for me to get this up here if you wanted it (also, if you are a contributor and not doing this daily, don't sweat it. it's more spontaneity than structure - it's just supposed to be a tool - and we can open this up. if you want to do just any chapter, feel free and go ahead and write about it if you want). Chapter 5 seemed a little uninteresting, but i read it again today eating dinner, and i actually got something out of it:
paul is writing to the Jews in Corinth, i think, and he starts off saying that there is "sexual immorality among you, and such...as is not even named among the Gentiles." the Jews are supposed to be kind of like God's chosen people, and when Jesus comes, i think He says that He's the King of the Jews. the Jews take pride in that they have Jewish blood, assuming that they are automatically better than everyone else because of their heritage. (Paul comes along and says that with God, there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, free nor slave, in the kingdom of God. everyone is equal.) Paul is making a point of saying that the Jews think they're so much better than the Gentiles, but here, they have such sin that doesn't even exist among the Gentiles. (it is also interesting because, in John, Jesus comes and the Gentiles don't even recognize Him as the Christ. they don't even want to claim Him as their King...i think they think He is insane and demon-possessed...a drunkard)
and paul says this is bad, but it gets worse because they "are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you." paul says that what is worse is that this body - the church in Corinth - has compromised. like they are aware of this sexual immorality and yet they tolerate it. which is wrong because the body of Christ shouldn't tolerate sin because, if one member of the body is not functioning with a heart for God, then it weighs everyone down and could easily cause others to stumble. so paul is saying that there shouldn't be any compromise with this sexual immorality, and i think he might be saying that they have compromised out of pride, out of being puffed up. the Jews find ways for excusing their behavior, maybe not even acknowledging it as wrong
he continues along this idea in verses 6-8, about how a sinner in the body of Christ can bring down the whole body. but instead of talking about things in terms of this, i think paul uses a metaphor. he chooses to talk about things in terms of lumps and leavens, and...i'm not sure why we would want to be a lump instead of a leaven, but i think the leaven is supposed to be sin - "the leaven of malice and wickedness" - and the lump means unleavened - the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." and we, as the body of Christ, were originally lumps, but then malice and wickedness got in the way, and so we were leavened... and even the smallest leaven leavens the whole thing. and then Christ was sacrificed so that we could become lumps again, so we could have sincerity and truth again.
paul says not to keep company with sexually immoral people, but he makes a distinction. he says not to "keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral." he makes the distinction of this person as being someone named a brother - and this is like the Pharisee. someone who makes a show of being so holy and righteous and then holds things in secrets. and paul says that it's okay to keep company with people who are "sexually immoral people of this world" (v. 9). i think this is how Jesus would eat with sinners and tax collectors, who weren't puffed up, but He was less likely to eat with the Pharisees who would make everybody believe that they were representatives of God when they weren't at all.
this is good news for people who feel like they're not good enough for God, because Jesus would come and eat with them. this was bad news for people who felt like they were good enough, people who were puffed up, because Paul is saying that people who are really in the body of Christ shouldn't hang out with them and eat. and this would be terrible for me, because years ago and even now, i have called myself a Christian and have even done Christian things, but i did/do a lot of things in secret that would qualify as sexual immoral. and we aren't supposed to be like this, because even a little compromise between us and any kind of sin is like leaven that leavens us, which distances us from God. i was talking to daniel one time and he said that, we as Christians, should only be tempted. we shouldn't compromise at all, but there's nothing wrong with being tempted, because that's kind of a part of our flesh, but the point is that we shouldn't give into it at all.
paul is talking about sexual immorality and how we shouldn't compromise with that or any other kind of sin. we shouldn't be tolerated to compromise and still display ourselves as really strong Christians, and others shouldn't tolerate the sin in us.
paul is writing to the Jews in Corinth, i think, and he starts off saying that there is "sexual immorality among you, and such...as is not even named among the Gentiles." the Jews are supposed to be kind of like God's chosen people, and when Jesus comes, i think He says that He's the King of the Jews. the Jews take pride in that they have Jewish blood, assuming that they are automatically better than everyone else because of their heritage. (Paul comes along and says that with God, there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, free nor slave, in the kingdom of God. everyone is equal.) Paul is making a point of saying that the Jews think they're so much better than the Gentiles, but here, they have such sin that doesn't even exist among the Gentiles. (it is also interesting because, in John, Jesus comes and the Gentiles don't even recognize Him as the Christ. they don't even want to claim Him as their King...i think they think He is insane and demon-possessed...a drunkard)
and paul says this is bad, but it gets worse because they "are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you." paul says that what is worse is that this body - the church in Corinth - has compromised. like they are aware of this sexual immorality and yet they tolerate it. which is wrong because the body of Christ shouldn't tolerate sin because, if one member of the body is not functioning with a heart for God, then it weighs everyone down and could easily cause others to stumble. so paul is saying that there shouldn't be any compromise with this sexual immorality, and i think he might be saying that they have compromised out of pride, out of being puffed up. the Jews find ways for excusing their behavior, maybe not even acknowledging it as wrong
he continues along this idea in verses 6-8, about how a sinner in the body of Christ can bring down the whole body. but instead of talking about things in terms of this, i think paul uses a metaphor. he chooses to talk about things in terms of lumps and leavens, and...i'm not sure why we would want to be a lump instead of a leaven, but i think the leaven is supposed to be sin - "the leaven of malice and wickedness" - and the lump means unleavened - the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." and we, as the body of Christ, were originally lumps, but then malice and wickedness got in the way, and so we were leavened... and even the smallest leaven leavens the whole thing. and then Christ was sacrificed so that we could become lumps again, so we could have sincerity and truth again.
paul says not to keep company with sexually immoral people, but he makes a distinction. he says not to "keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral." he makes the distinction of this person as being someone named a brother - and this is like the Pharisee. someone who makes a show of being so holy and righteous and then holds things in secrets. and paul says that it's okay to keep company with people who are "sexually immoral people of this world" (v. 9). i think this is how Jesus would eat with sinners and tax collectors, who weren't puffed up, but He was less likely to eat with the Pharisees who would make everybody believe that they were representatives of God when they weren't at all.
this is good news for people who feel like they're not good enough for God, because Jesus would come and eat with them. this was bad news for people who felt like they were good enough, people who were puffed up, because Paul is saying that people who are really in the body of Christ shouldn't hang out with them and eat. and this would be terrible for me, because years ago and even now, i have called myself a Christian and have even done Christian things, but i did/do a lot of things in secret that would qualify as sexual immoral. and we aren't supposed to be like this, because even a little compromise between us and any kind of sin is like leaven that leavens us, which distances us from God. i was talking to daniel one time and he said that, we as Christians, should only be tempted. we shouldn't compromise at all, but there's nothing wrong with being tempted, because that's kind of a part of our flesh, but the point is that we shouldn't give into it at all.
paul is talking about sexual immorality and how we shouldn't compromise with that or any other kind of sin. we shouldn't be tolerated to compromise and still display ourselves as really strong Christians, and others shouldn't tolerate the sin in us.
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