What was the first letter written by Apostle Paul?

Answer 1

1. Paul Baptized Crispus and Gaius. And maybe Stephanus and his household. He can't remember if he did it to anyone else. 1:14-16

2. God is pleased with the preachers foolishness.

1:21 "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe."

3. It's not wise to be wise. 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

4. Don't learn anything new. Just to know Jesus is enough.

2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

5.Paul establishes his own cult (Christianity) by telling others to follow him. Jesus was Jewish.

4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

6. Do not sue your brother even if you were defrauded.

6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

7. Against circumcision. Jesus was circumcised according to Mosaic tradition.

7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

8. Slaves must content to be slaves.

7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men

Answer 2

In I Corinthians, Paul was addressing and counselling the church on questions arising from a number of problems that had crept into their lifestyle and worship. These included immoral behavior, lawsuits, doctrines, and abuses of spiritual gifts and the Lord's Supper.

II Corinthians was written to thank the repentant Corinthians for their change of heart following their listening to teachers whom had defamed Paul. Throughout the letter, he defends himself against the rumours.

Answer 3

AnswerWe have two letters by Paul to the church in Corinth. However, some scholars say that 2 Corinthians appears to be a composite letter, formed by subsequent merging of possibly three original letters into a single epistle. Certainly, 2 Corinthians mentions other letters that we no longer have unless they are now part of 2 Corinthians. On the evidence, it seems likely that Paul actually wrote around four letters to the Corinthians.

Answer 4

A:The Corinthians seem to have been confused as to whom they should worship. At 1 Corinthians 1:11-15, Paul spoke of contentions among them. For him to speak of those who were of Paul or of Apollos or Cephas would, at most, mean that the community was divided as to whose version of Christianity to follow. But for him to speak, as well, of those who were of Christ, and to ask whether Paul was crucified for them, or whether they were baptised in the name of Paul, suggests a deeper confusion. Paul, Apollos and Cephas were probably distant personalities who rarely visited Corinth, while local preachers conducted baptisms and taught what they understood about Christianity, calling upon the name of Paul, Apollos or Cephas for their authority. Jesus was also a distant personality, whose central role the Corinthians seem to have misunderstood.

In 1 Corinthians 2:8, it is 'the princes of this world' who crucified the Lord of Glory, although they did not know it. In this passage, Paul was accusing the demon spirits, not Pontius Pilate or the Jews. The princes of the world are generally considered to be the evil celestial rulers of the world who existed in the lower heavens, there being seven heavens with God at the very top.

At 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, Paul said that Jesus died and was buried, rose again according to the scriptures, then was seen by Cephas, then the twelve, then by more than 500, most of whom were still alive, then by James and all the apostles, and finally by himself. Not only does this account differ in several important ways from the accounts that would later form part of the gospels, but Paul implied that the appearances were all of the same nature. There is no suggestion that any of the appearances to Cephas, the twelve, James or the apostles were somehow more real than the spiritual appearance he experienced. He only deferred because he was the last to see Jesus and because he had been guilty of persecuting Christians. Paul never claimed that his authority had come from disciples who had received their own authority from Jesus himself, as would be implied later by the Acts of the Apostles.

1 Corinthians 16:1-4 refers to the support of the Galatians for a collection to assist the poor of Judea, and asks very directly that the Corinthians contribute as well. The Corinthians may have needed some prompting, since the request was repeated at some length in 2 Corinthians. There is no suggestion that the collection was an ongoing tithe, in fact there is a sense of some urgency and a recognition that the congregations would face difficulty in meeting what was demanded of them. So, Paul invested considerable effort and goodwill in solving a specific problem for the Jerusalem brethren. He mentioned the collection in Romans, listing only Macedonia and Achaia as contributing, to the obvious exclusion of the Galatians, as well as other churches with which he must have been in contact. A reasonable inference is that Judea faced an economic crisis, and that the crisis affected all of the world in which Paul worked. Such a crisis was the famine that occurred between 44 and 48 CE. This famine would explain the Jerusalem brethren seeking assistance, the importance Paul placed on the collection and his comparative lack of success, particularly in Galatia. It would mean that 1 Corinthians was written during the period 44 to 48 CE, although it is more traditionally assigned to the mid-fifties, largely as a result of the somewhat different account in Acts of the Apostles.

Answer 5

AnswerIt is believed that 1 Thessalonians was the first letter to be written by Paul.

Answer 6

that we are all members of the one Body of Christ, the Church

Answer 7

A Salutation

Answer 8

Romans, from about A.D. 34.

Answer 9

1 Thessalonians