Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Corinthians 1-4.

In his first letter to the Corinthian Believers Paul first addresses the issue of faction within the Church.  In particular, he addresses the issue wherein we attempt to win arguments over living out our faith by appealing to the authority of one teacher or another.  Paul tells us that there should be no divisions among Believers.  As long as the teachings someone is following build upon the foundation which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ (elsewhere Paul speaks about what the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” is, so I will not write about what that is here), we should not argue with them to the point of division, to the point of unfriending them and casting them out of all of our social circles.  That does not mean that Paul is saying that all teachings are of equal value.  Paul writes that we together as a group of Believers are God’s temple.  So, we should choose carefully which teachings we use to build our temple of faith.  However, as long as our foundation is the Gospel of Christ, our temple will survive God’s judgement.  Arguing divisively in the Church destroys the temple to God which the Body of Believers is intended to be.  Those who bring about such division will be subject to God’s judgement.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.