Essay Two
One could argue that many, if not all, of Corinth's problems stemmed from a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the resurrection. Discuss how the Corinthians misinterpreted Paul's teachings on the resurrection and how that misunderstanding led to the various problems in that community.
One of the big issues was that the people of Corinth did not understand the resurrection. The people of Corinth believed that they were already living as the exalted and they were reaping the benefits because that they already lived better than other generations. The people of Corinth began to think they were above each other and began to fight with each other and divide themselves into groups depending on who taught them about Christianity. …show more content…
What is the problem in each of these scenarios? What is the solution? How is a believer justified? What do you think about Paul writing two difference perspectives on sin in one letter? Two different models of salvation are the judicial model and the participant model. To better understand the judicial model you must understand that there is a belief that there are laws for people to follow and that God made the laws and judges people for breaking them. Sin is breaking these laws and carries a punishment of death. There is a belief that Jesus’s death is payment for all people and offers salvation. With the participant theory, sin is when people deliberately shut God out of their lives. Death is more than just being literally dead it is the entrapment of the soul. The salvation of Jesus Christ gives people freedom from this entrapment and a way to participate with God in this freedom. Both of these two models give slightly different rationales of what the salvation means. The problem is that neither model offers a stand-alone for explanation. I believe Paul wanted the two models to show how different perspectives could still come together and in the end still have the same result of salvation. Baptism can be done to justify the believers either by washing the sins away as in the judicial model or uniting with Jesus in victory over sins as in the participationist
One of the big issues was that the people of Corinth did not understand the resurrection. The people of Corinth believed that they were already living as the exalted and they were reaping the benefits because that they already lived better than other generations. The people of Corinth began to think they were above each other and began to fight with each other and divide themselves into groups depending on who taught them about Christianity. …show more content…
What is the problem in each of these scenarios? What is the solution? How is a believer justified? What do you think about Paul writing two difference perspectives on sin in one letter? Two different models of salvation are the judicial model and the participant model. To better understand the judicial model you must understand that there is a belief that there are laws for people to follow and that God made the laws and judges people for breaking them. Sin is breaking these laws and carries a punishment of death. There is a belief that Jesus’s death is payment for all people and offers salvation. With the participant theory, sin is when people deliberately shut God out of their lives. Death is more than just being literally dead it is the entrapment of the soul. The salvation of Jesus Christ gives people freedom from this entrapment and a way to participate with God in this freedom. Both of these two models give slightly different rationales of what the salvation means. The problem is that neither model offers a stand-alone for explanation. I believe Paul wanted the two models to show how different perspectives could still come together and in the end still have the same result of salvation. Baptism can be done to justify the believers either by washing the sins away as in the judicial model or uniting with Jesus in victory over sins as in the participationist