Corinthians

 One and Two First and Second Corinthians are epistles from Paul of Tarsus to the Greek church of Corinth. Unlike some of the epistles attributed to Paul, the consensus is that he really did write both, even though the second one may be edited out of more than one original letter or document. One exception to this is the famous 1 Corinthians 13 which is in a notably different literary register, and William O. Walker proposed that it might been written by a different author, although others point to typically Pauline features in vocabulary and theology in support of authorship by Paul.

First Corinthians
First Corinthians was likely written some 20 years after the death of Jesus, when Paul was in Ephesus. This would date the letter between 53 and 57 CE. Like most of the epistles, Corinthians 1 was written to address what Paul saw as theological problems in the Church of Corinth, focusing on divisions of the leaders of the church. He asks them to seek church unity and to step away from the divisive Pagan ideas that threaten the Church with God's punishment.

Feminism
The epistle is a breakthrough for the rights of women. For the first time, St. Paul relented and allowed women to learn how to avoid eternal damnation too. Just as long as they asked their questions the hell away from him.



Five hundred
This is the source of the frequent apologist statement that there were five hundred witnesses to the resurrected Christ.



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''When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.''

Second Corinthians
This is also an authentic letter of Paul's, written after the 1st letter (and a missing letter, called the "letter of tears") failed to have effect on the Church. There is discussion that the epistle included in the canon is actually 2 letters joined, and that the harsh rebukes are separate from the letter that asks to visit.

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