THE LETTER OF CORINTHIANS

 

THE LETTER OF CORINTHIANS

 

The interesting and new things I got from reading the book Introduction to the New Testament by Donald Guthrie were:

The Corinthian church could not be an example to those around them until these two Corinthian letters are very valuable and describe a problem that saddened the apostle Paul (p.28). The reason why this choice is interesting is that before I read this book and heard the explanation from the lecturer in the last class, I never knew that Corinth was a church that had extraordinary problems cf. pp. 34 1 Corinthians), covering status, crime in various aspects, strife, seeking justice for unbelievers and immorality (adultery, relationship between child and stepmother, etc.). When I imagined to be the apostle Paul when I heard the news about the church in Corinth, how much treatment and rebuke was needed for the church there, and Paul could only give a letter maybe because he was in the ministry or in prison.

 Paul's opponent in Corinth (pp. 28-31) became an interesting thing for me, it turned out that behind Paul's purpose of sending this letter to rebuke the congregation there, it turned out that Paul wanted to help the congregation in knowing the true gospel and the concept of eschatology and the teachers or false prophets who taught about the false gospel.

With the visit of mourning and letters of distress (pp. 35-48), almost all of the reading of this book is new to me, it turns out that Paul wrote this letter to Corinth which has a lot of complexity and much is still being discussed about the “lost letter”, “the visit that was lost.” third time or never or just a desire”, “chapters of chapters 1-9 and 10-13 in 2 Corinthians”, while reading this letter as normal and without problems, it becomes an interest to study the Bible more and more. This unique feature, besides its content is the Word of God that is relevant to us today, it is also important to explore and learn from previous theologians regarding this letter of Paul. However, even though it appears that this Bible has problems, especially Paul's letter to the Corinthians, it does not reduce our faith to believe in God, but to make us more confident that God's involvement from the past until now in all problems is real.

And what is new and interesting from this reading is the dating of this letter, by referring to Paul's writings in his letter makes theologians interpret and reconstruct their arguments regarding the time gap between the writing of the letters of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, even the author of this book does not conclude when exactly the letter -this letter was written, so it is necessary to find out by reading more books about this letter to Corinth to conclude when this letter was written.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Each lesson or course if studied more deeply will automatically add to one's insight, because there are so many new and interesting things when studying the Bible with references or references from various aspects, both from the environment (school/campus, discussions) and from the liturgy. (internet, books, etc.) without neglecting the power of the Holy Spirit who enlightens every individual to be able to understand the contents of the Bible itself. Because the Bible is an open book that accepts various inputs or references to be able to understand the contents of the Bible, without putting aside the absolute truth of the Bible as the Word of God that is without error, but it is not wrong if you want to seek and dig deeper by looking at experience and knowledge. others.

 

 

THANK YOU, LORD JESUS ​​BLESS

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