Again, we had a fun discussion! Jo Ann, Dan, Odette, Karen, David, Dave, Robin, and Merrill attended. Zoom continues to be great since Dan was in Long Beach, Jo Ann was in Colorado Springs, and Karen was on the road from Colorado to South Carolina. Of course Odette, David, Dave, and Robin were also in Long Beach.
Below is a summary of written by Dan:
New Testament from a Jewish point of view April 25, 2022
Prologue – “Give me that old time religion” - (As usual Dan led us in singing “Give Me That Old Time Religion.”
We then read and studied 1st Corinthians chapters 14 and 15
Chapter 14
Tongues, unintelligible and otherwise. David Philips said he could not find evidence of a pre-Christian practice of speaking in tongues. However, he said the practice existed from 200 BCE on among the Greeks and Romans, specifically the oracles, such as the oracle of Delphi.
Those present agreed the practice is strange. Karen said she broke up with a boyfriend after attending his church which practiced speaking in tongues. Jo Ann recalled an incident in a church when she was expected to fall down, but no one told her that. She recalled the pastor’s “oily hand” pressing against her forehead in vain (!).
Chapter 15
Odette first thing expressed her bad feelings about the passage that forbade women to speak in church (latter part of chapter 15). Dan said according to Dr Bart Ehrman there is good evidence from ancient manuscripts that this passage is addition from some ancient scribe who added this later and does not belong in this passage at all.
Early in chapter 15, Paul says what the “gospel” is, and spends the rest of the chapter refuting the idea that the dead are not going to be resurrected. Paul vehemently opposed this idea, saying that if the dead are not raised (resurrected), then Jesus was not raised. That would mean the whole Christian message is meaningless, according to Paul.
The last part of chapter 15 describes the resurrect of the dead when the dead are raised, then are joined by the living, to forever be with the Lord.
Dan recommended listening to “The trumpet shall sound” from Handel’s Messiah, available on You Tube.
Please add anything forgotten to this summary.
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