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Seeler -----Your Quote -----Now we come to Paul's letters to the Corinthians. We don't know how many letters he wrote to the church there, perhaps as many as four. Parts of some of them may have been incorporated into the two letters that we do have.
unsafe says -----again all speculation ----- there is nothing in scripture that says that some of other letters might have been incorporated into any scripture that is in God's word ----- if we are going to use speculation then we should give where we got the information from cause information that comes from our own minds does not come from the Holy Spirit it comes from human speculation --------
unsafe says and posted article below ----This is an article I found that contradicts the above quote in Seeler's post ----read all at link provided -----
HOW MANY LETTERS DID PAUL WRITE TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
May 14, 2018 by Monte Shanks, Ph.D.
HOW MANY LETTERS DID PAUL WRITE TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
As student’s read Paul’s letters to the church at Corinth, and then read the discussions of some scholars on the subject, they are often confused with respect to how many letters did Paul write to the church at Corinth, as well as the chronology of when he wrote them. Moreover, as they begin to investigate the history of the epistles found in the New Testament sometimes they get frustrated by the discover that the early church did not preserve everything that the apostles wrote, and this is especially true with Paul’s letters to the church at Corinth. Some scholars postulate that Paul wrote at least 4 different letters to the Corinthians, and some even assert that 2 Corinthians is really a redaction that merges 2 different letters so that they appear as a single letter. I will suggest in this blog that this is simply not the case, and I will argue that it is most probable that although Paul did write many personal letters to people at different churches, he only wrote 2 “general epistles” to the church at Corinth, and both of them are contained in the New Testament.
unsafe says ----
The truth is we don't know --and if it is not in scripture to tell us then God didn't deem it necessary to know and it doesn't change what God says about His word being Truth --------by putting what we think and mixing it with truth leads to confusion and that happened in
Ephesus, a riot broke out ------unsafe says -------mixing truth with the world's view brought confusion and aggression
Seelers Quote from Post # 933 ----------Meanwhile in Ephesus, a riot broke out. It had its roots in economics. Before Paul came, the silversmith had been very successful in making and selling idols to the Gentile gods. Business slacked off when many were converted to Christianity.
unsafe says -----again all speculation ----- there is nothing in scripture that says that some of other letters might have been incorporated into any scripture that is in God's word ----- if we are going to use speculation then we should give where we got the information from cause information that comes from our own minds does not come from the Holy Spirit it comes from human speculation --------
unsafe says and posted article below ----This is an article I found that contradicts the above quote in Seeler's post ----read all at link provided -----
HOW MANY LETTERS DID PAUL WRITE TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
May 14, 2018 by Monte Shanks, Ph.D.
HOW MANY LETTERS DID PAUL WRITE TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
As student’s read Paul’s letters to the church at Corinth, and then read the discussions of some scholars on the subject, they are often confused with respect to how many letters did Paul write to the church at Corinth, as well as the chronology of when he wrote them. Moreover, as they begin to investigate the history of the epistles found in the New Testament sometimes they get frustrated by the discover that the early church did not preserve everything that the apostles wrote, and this is especially true with Paul’s letters to the church at Corinth. Some scholars postulate that Paul wrote at least 4 different letters to the Corinthians, and some even assert that 2 Corinthians is really a redaction that merges 2 different letters so that they appear as a single letter. I will suggest in this blog that this is simply not the case, and I will argue that it is most probable that although Paul did write many personal letters to people at different churches, he only wrote 2 “general epistles” to the church at Corinth, and both of them are contained in the New Testament.
unsafe says ----
The truth is we don't know --and if it is not in scripture to tell us then God didn't deem it necessary to know and it doesn't change what God says about His word being Truth --------by putting what we think and mixing it with truth leads to confusion and that happened in
Ephesus, a riot broke out ------unsafe says -------mixing truth with the world's view brought confusion and aggression
Seelers Quote from Post # 933 ----------Meanwhile in Ephesus, a riot broke out. It had its roots in economics. Before Paul came, the silversmith had been very successful in making and selling idols to the Gentile gods. Business slacked off when many were converted to Christianity.
