First Corinthians: Search and Destroy

Search: "...if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die." (15:32)

Search: "For now we see through a glass, darkly..." (13:12)

Destroy: "But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." (14:38)

chapter 13 is generally so OTM.

There are still a few lines left in that chapter that J0hn hasn't quoted from!

Clay otm!

search: "There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound." (14:10)

destroy: "What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable." (15:50)

I don't know max

I mean I know how that's been used, and I maybe know what Paul was driving at, but there are a number of other ways you could go with it, and some of them are pretty great

That totally goes against Mromrn theology wherein the body is the most sacred thing you have been given & in the resurrection everyone will be reunited with their "perfected" physical bodies & joy joy bcz they've just been souls up in hevvin and now oh man soul+body union forever.

Sorry I am always mentioning Mormo shit, it is not at all my Beliefs, BUT srsly it is always the first reflex thought that arises before anything else. Like if you've been fed and fed while corked up for 20 years it will take a long time for you to get all its shit out of yr system.

You drunk?

I wish I was. : (

i dont like its idealist/dualist stance but id be interested in hearing where you'd take it john

I'll tell you where I'd take it!

I'd take it and introduce it right up your jacksie!

I'D exchange it for alcohol and a kind word.

Shit I am turning into a hobo.

id take it to dinner and a movie

I'd walk right along and pretend nothing happened!

The Bad Samaritan

So we got these cheesy cards at one of the bars I regularly DJ at with invitations to the bar's christmas party, and mine had had this inscribed which I would classify as search:

<i>"Wishing you ... a dream to bless, a star to guide and peace and harmony inside!" 1 Corinthians 16:23</i>

But checking my NSRV translation, 1 Corinthians 16:23 is the second to last verse of the whole book: <i>(23)The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. (24)My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.</i>

So I'm thinking that's a really interesting translation, is my point.

oh, bbcodepaws..

Hm, so far googling is unpromising...

The stuff about women was probably interpolated by a later author.

Anyway, search: the social message of the book. I love how egalitarian it all is.

Incidentally, J0hn, I've always really loved that part of "Love, Love, Love."

There's a dude on my bus this morning with long hair and a beard, wearing a confederate overcoat, and reading Second Corinthians. Any highlights from that one?

http://www.jarnaginco.com/artwork/confuniform/cs%20overcoat%20front1.jpg

I think it was this one.