I Corinthians Research Paper

I Corinthians is thought to be the second letter Paul had written to the church at Corinth, in I Corinthians 5:9 Paul says I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. This is thought to refer to an earlier letter called the warning letter sent to the church at Corinth at some point before this letter. Then we have the second letter to Corinth which we know as I Corinthians. Now we move to Paul’s third letter some call Paul’s Severe Letter he refers to in II Corinthians 7:8 where he talks about making them feel sorry for what they were doing. This does not fit to what he was talking about in I Corinthians so we think that he is referring to what some call his “Letter of Tears” which we believe was II Corinthians chapters
Then we have his fourth letter which we believe to be II Corinthians chapters 1-9. Paul went to Corinth a city in Greece and established the church there on his second missionary journey according to Luke in Acts 18:1-8. Now when we get to his second letter to the church in Corinth he starts by dealing with some of the churches issues. One of his first things he tries is to unify the church which had become divided between the followers of Paul, Peter and Apollo’s instead of just following the teaching of Christianity as a whole. He is trying to redirect them to their original calling in which all the glory belongs to God and not to man, that He (God) would receive all the glory and not any man. Then he goes on to deal with the different type of people, the Natural man which he describes as someone who does not know God, the Carnal man as someone who knows God but is not being led by the Spirit of God but by his own flesh and the Spiritual man, as someone who knows God and is walking in the Spirit of God. He then told the Corinthians that they have become carnal, saying they know God but are not being lead by the