Paul converted to Christianity from Judaism because of a revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, Paul was traveling around northern Greece to churches in Phillipi, Thessalonica, and Beroea. Paul briefly stopped in Athens before taking a trip to Corinth. The fact that Paul was able to make this long trip shows the strength, stamina, and the deeply felt beliefs that carried Paul along the way. Paul stayed in the city of Corinth for about a year and a half, before sailing to Ephesus. It is from this city that Paul wrote the letters to the church in Corinth.

The people of Corinth were by no means saints or angels. The

This continuing correspondence with the Corinthians is the longest correspondence with nay group in the entire New Testament. Paul provides a background of the people the letter was written for and why the letter was written. This of course was not he only letter written to the Corinthians, but it is the first that scholars have found. There is believed to be another before it, but it has yet to be found. The writer of this report believes that Paul got his point across and helped to change the lifestyles that the Corinthians were living at this time.

2. Paul, The New Testament: First Corinthians, The NIV

The last and most important topic that Paul talked about was the issue of resurrection. The people in Corinth at this time had different views of the afterlife; some believed that they already had achieved eternal life at baptism, while other citizens believed the Greek approach of future life being that of a spiritual nature. To some people of Corinth, the fact that Paul believed that the body of resurrection was actual flesh was sickening. Paul believes that the body, which is sown or planted like a seed, is perishable and that body will eventually be raised imperishable. Basically, Paul is saying that the spirit needs a vessel into the next life. Paul proves this point in chapter fifteen, verse three through eight. The verses describe Jesus' resurrection from the dead, and that more than 500 people witnessed it. In Paul's last thoughts to the Corinthians, the disciple tells the citizens that they are to give money every Sunday and help the Jerusalem church. Paul ends the letter with an invocation of a hasty return to earth by Jesus.

Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1977

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