EPISODE · Mar 31, 2016 · 29 MIN
Hell Was Created Just for Me
from The Bible as Literature · host The Ephesus School
The key to understanding any idea, statement or position is to examine its premise. What underlying assumptions must be made for an idea to make sense? What motivations drive these assumptions? Once you are able to examine an argument in this way, even the most clever intellectuals are quickly put to shame. No matter how sophisticated the theology of the elite in Roman Corinth, because their assumptions were predicated on human principles, nothing they said could ever pass muster with Paul and everything they did caused division in the church. Why? Because from the Bible’s point of view, if it’s a human word, it is naturally selfish. So what is an apostle to do? Take a stand against all sides and do so at your own expense. Richard and Fr. Marc discuss 1 Corinthians 12. (Episode 115; 1 Corinthians 12); Subscribe: http://feedpress.me/the-bible-as-literature; “East of Tunesia” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http:// creativecommons .org/ licenses /by/3.0/) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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The key to understanding any idea, statement or position is to examine its premise. What underlying assumptions must be made for an idea to make sense? What motivations drive these assumptions? Once you are able to examine an argument in this way, even the most clever intellectuals are quickly put to shame. No matter how sophisticated the theology of the elite in Roman Corinth, because their assumptions were predicated on human principles, nothing they said could ever pass muster with Paul and everything they did caused division in the church. Why? Because from the Bible’s point of view, if it’s a human word, it is naturally selfish. So what is an apostle to do? Take a stand against all sides and do so at your own expense. Richard and Fr. Marc discuss 1 Corinthians 12. (Episode 115; 1 Corinthians 12); Subscribe: http://feedpress.me/the-bible-as-literature; “East of Tunesia” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http:// creativecommons .org/ licenses /by/3.0/)
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