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To: Mr Rogers; annalex
YOU are the building, and SOMEONE ELSE is now working on it. It is not and cannot be Paul working on himself.

Yes, it can.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren,be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Phillipians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses twelve to eighteen,
Phillipians, Catholic chapter three, Protestant verses thirteen to seventeen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
bold and underline emphasis mine

437 posted on 11/08/2015 7:11:45 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981; annalex

There are few less convincing ways to set the context of a sentence than by pulling sentences out of another letter. Your quote has NOTHING to do with Paul’s argument in 1 Cor 3, and NOTHING to add about who is the builder and who is the building, or who is the planter and who is the field being planted.

But then, it doesn’t take much context to understand 1 Cor 3, since a hired hand planting a field is NOT the field itself, and the architect of a building is not the building itself. That is just excruciatingly obvious. To deny it is to fly off into La-La Land.


438 posted on 11/08/2015 7:49:24 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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