what was the city of Corinth like?
In Pauls time it was a huge city, being the center of commerce of the entire eastern Mediterranean area between Sicily and Antioch. Corinth had a population of about 650,000 people, two-thirds of which were slaves. It had a wicked reputation; the Greeks had a slang term for going over to a completely immoral life; it was literally “to Corinthiasize”. The church there tolerated some serious moral and doctrinal problems. If someone says we want to be just like the early Christians, the truth of the matter is that we do not want to be exactly like the Corinthians. In 97/98 A.D. Clement of Rome wrote a letter to the Corinthian church, basically rebuking them for not doing some of the things Paul told them to do fifty years ago. As a small detail, Haleys Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible p.310 mentions that Mr. Conybeare in Life and Epistles of St. Paul vol.2 p.27,31 (American edition) is one who mentioned the term “to Corinthiasize”. Q: Does 1 Cor 1:3 show that Jesus is God the Father as
