Friday, February 15, 2019
I Corinthians 6:12-13 :: Christianity Christian Biblical Essays
I Corinthians 612-13Everything is permissible for me but non everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me but I will not be get the hang by anything. Food for the stomach and the stomach for the food but deity will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the passe-partout, and the Lord for the body (NIV).The broadest of freedom is being competent to do what you want, when you want to do it, and wherever and however you want to do it. Freedom is being able to control our lives to do what pleases us, or what we think is going to give us the highest amount of pleasure. It is the freedom to choose anything, without any restrictions, and it is what every single soulfulness wants. But there is a more narrow form of freedom, the freedom to choose, not just anything, but the right thing. I believe this was the fictional character in the church in Corinth concerning this passage.The church in Corinth was a two-year-old church that Paul established when he was there and was having problems with their hot-found freedom. The Corinthian Christians were not sure which laws, if any, applied to them because of the freedom from the law they have in Jesus. The garner was written to the church to advise them on how to handle the problems. Some problems were eldritch arrogance, wrong-doings against other believers, sexual immorality, and misunderstanding on Christian beliefs.In these two verses, 1 Corinthians 612-13, Paul is addressing the immorality of their sexual practices. The city of Corinth is a sex-crazed society, where sex outside marriage is lawful, but not in Gods law. Mathew hydrogen comments, the maxim of lawful liberty to countenance the sin of fornication, though it exponent be allowed by the Corinthian laws, was a trespass upon the law of nature, and short unbecoming a Christian (page ). Their freedom is under a new standard of law.Our bodies are the only thing we have 100 per centime control of when i t comes to what we do with our bodies, not even God has control of it. In this passage Paul is saying that I can choose to do whatever I want, regardless, but not everything I choose is faithful for me. I have control over all my choices, but I wont allow my choices to control me. Paul makes an analogy of the food and its relationship to the
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