Many commentators argue that Greek culture held a primarily negative view of the body. Theories regarding the nature of the body, the soul, and the mind abounded in Ancient Greece. The Greco-Roman Attitude Towards the Body Second, I will apply these insights to several contemporary issues: sexual immorality, abortion, and transgenderism. Of particular interest will be the Greek view of the body and sexual immorality as well as the cultural influences of Corinth connected with prostitution and temple imagery.
In this paper, I will first examine the competing theories about the background of this passage and how this gives us understanding into the interpretation of this passage. Thus, an in-depth study of this passage is sorely needed for the church today. Īmong the issues that are implicated by this view of the body include abortion, euthanasia, the hook-up culture, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. The key to understanding all the controversial issues of our day is that the concept of the human being has likewise been fragmented into… a body/person split…This dualism has created a fractured, fragmented view of the human being in which the body is treated as separate from the authentic self. As Nancy Pearcey notes in her book Love Thy Body, this has a myriad of applications to many contemporary issues in our culture today.
Much of what we think we know can only be deduced from how Paul responds in his letter.Īt the same time, it also includes one of the most important passages in Scripture on the theology of the body and the importance of the physical body in our relationship with Christ and our fellow human beings. Two primary reasons why this is the case is because of: 1) The uncertainty of which words that can be attributed to Paul or to the Corinthians, and 2) The uncertainty regarding the circumstances and cultural influences of the Corinthian church. 7:23 See 2 Pet.1 Corinthians 6:12-20 contains some of Paul’s most difficult writing. 19 Or ( Y)do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? ( Z)You are not your own, 20 ( AA)for you were bought with a price. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person ( X)sins against his own body. 15 Do you not know that ( T)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, ( U)“The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord ( V)becomes one spirit with him. 14 And ( Q)God raised the Lord and ( R)will also raise us up ( S)by his power. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but ( O)for the Lord, and ( P)the Lord for the body. 13 ( M)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”-and God will destroy both one ( N)and the other. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. Flee Sexual Immoralityġ2 ( L)“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. But ( I)you were washed, ( J)you were sanctified, ( K)you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. ( E)Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud-even ( F)your own brothers! ĩ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: ( G)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. 6 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous ( A)instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that ( B)the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, ( C)why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 ( D)I say this to your shame.
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