House Church Talk - Re: Real Christians
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RoyalHeirling at aol.com
Thu Sep 16 22:55:53 EDT 2004
In a message dated 9/12/04 12:00:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Glenn Frank
writes:
> If my chronology is right... Paul went to Corinth after his Mars Hill
> experience in Athens and after arguing with the philosophers who thought it
> "interesting" to talk about things like the resurrection of the dead and how
> all the details of that would work... And after only a few were saved in
> spite of this intellectual exercise... Paul goes to Corinth and RESOLVES to
> not get into that kind of arguing with philosophers again... He chooses to
> know only Jesus and to preach only Him and His crucifixion. He goes back to
> the basics to just doing what he is called to do and being what he is called
> to be.
Perhaps Paul was just being weak among the weak, under the law among those
under the law, and intellectual with the intellects, so that he might save some.
I thought his discourse was to inform them of the only God to which they
referred to as the unknown god. Am I mixed up here?
Jeff
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