We read portions of 2 Corinthians 4 and 5 as well left the hotel. Corinthian Canal We drove south from the hotel to the Peloponnese of Greece. Our first stop was at the famous Corinthian Canel. It was built over a 11 year span (1882-1893) and is 3.8 miles long, 75-85 feet wide ...
Read more about the story of Adam and Eve, their lives in the Garden of Eden, how sin entered the world, and the consequences of disobeying God. 1 Corinthians 15:22-44 22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. ...
“This is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.”– 2 Corinthians 1:12 (KJV) Concise outline of “The Witness of Our Own Spirit” 1. S...
Paul was referring to Jesus' brother. As Wells states, this is the normal way to understand this passage. Second, in I Corinthians 9:5, the Lord's brothers refer to individuals who are authoritative enough to be compared to Peter and the apostles, not to some obscure group of believers....
and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.12When the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their wrongdoing, declares theLord. I will reduce the land of the Babylonians to a wasteland for all time.13I will unleash upon th...
Many of the beliefs and practices of Christianity originated from Paul’s teachings in his letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians and Hebrews, and to Timothy, Titus and Philemon. The other Epistles (by James, Peter, John and Jude) were ...
(10:10). For which reason, the Apostle says in 1 Corinthians (9:13-14) that “the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel… just as they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place.” So, it seems improper for those who...
The passage from the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, which describes the purification of some category of sinners after death quasi per ignem (so as through fire) (I Corinthians, III, 11-15), text of Saint Paul which was the object of the most comments in the middle ages; c. The...
(2 Thessalonians 2) in which ‘aliens,’ which are demonic hybrid creatures, will invade the earth, and or will be credited for abducting Christians. This of course to explain away the rapture (1 Corinthians 15:52) and blind the wo...
By his own account, Paul was the best Jew and the best Pharisee of his generation (Philippians 3:4–6; Galatians 1:13–14), though he claimed to be the least apostle of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:22–3; 1 Corinthians 15:9–10) and attributed his successes to the grace of God. ...