Chapter 1 Corinthians: Chapter Analysis

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1 Corinthians is Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church in Greece that takes on both an admonishing and encouraging tone. Though there are many themes throughout this book, chapter 15 zooms in on one main topic: the resurrection. The church’s beliefs had started to become infused with the culture’s beliefs and they had begun to doubt the truth of the Resurrection. In this chapter, Paul tries to combat this, simultaneously answering several worldview questions.
The first and most prominent worldview question we see in Paul’s letter is, “What happens to a person at death?” By reading the text we begin to observe that the Corinthian church was struggling with this question and Paul tries to combat it through the entirety of the chapter. Paul’s

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