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This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions

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1. Who may Sosthenes have been
2. Why is primary authorship attributed to Paul
3. What Greek word does Paul use for the Church, and what does it imply
4. In 1:3, how does Paul transform the usual Greek greeting to a more Christian usage
5. From 1:5, with what have the Corinthian Christian been enriched
6. From 1:7, how did the Christian world-view differ markedly from the Roman world-view
7. From 1:10-11, what was one of the main problems in the Church in Corinth. How might this relate to churches today.
8. What does the textbook have to say about the Greek word e)rij
9. Who may Crispus have been
10. Who may Gaius have been
11. How does Paul deal with the problems of divisions and strife
12. What was the difference between contemporary oratory and the preaching of the Christian Gospel
13. From 1:23, how did non-Christian Jews and Gentiles view the skandalon of the Cross
14. How does Paul deal with the problem of people from the social elite boasting about their status. How might this relate to churches today
15. Compare Paul's oratorical strategy with those of Favorinus and Dio Chrysostom
16. From 3:5-9, how does Paul describe his ministry, and that of Apollos, so as to deal with the problem of rivalry in theCchurch
17. How would you apply 3:9-17, the picture of the building of a temple, to the individual Christian, and to the Church in a city
18. How does Paul contrast the "wisdom of the world" with the "wisdom of God"
19. From chapter 4, how does Paul describe his special relationship to the church in Corinth
20. What indications does this section (chapters 1-4) give that there were Jewish Christian members of the Church in Corinth

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