What I take from the secondary text is Paul wanted the converts at Corinth and Thessalonica to worship God and expect the return of Jesus Christ (Ehrman, p. 371). However, this was not the primary message Paul wanted to the converts understand, instead it was the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. See First Corinthians 15:3-4. Paul uses the word “importance” to make his point. In the case of the Thessalonica Paul draws upon his Jewish roots to link scripture with the Jewish religion. On the other hand, for Corinthians Paul used scripture in the beginning to emphasis the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as stated in 1 Corinthians 20. (Ehrman, p. 371) How does this inform the primary text. Paul was very selective in the ideas
