From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian? Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:14:56 EST
In a message dated 1/13/2005 1:14:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> 2 Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused
> you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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Perry, knowing Corinth the way we do, the above passage is only true after
Paul cleans up the mess this "virgin" has made. Does not 2 Cor 11:2 speak to
purpose while the reality of matter was quite different? You know how
screwed up the Corinth church was, right?
divisions, immorality, jealously over spiritual gifts, a general and
corporate immaturity. That was the reality. Until they approached the "as a
virgin" thingy, what was happening with them in the mean while? Was the whole
lot of them simply lost until the moment they crossed that hypthetical line
that marked an exceptable degree of maturity and spiritual correctness? Or
could it be that the blood of Christ took care of the problem that I call "in the
mean while."??
JOhn
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