Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland
Dr. Charles L. Feinberg
Dr. J. Richard Chase
PANELDiscussions Q. Heartford, So. Dak. " How can a person’s mind and flesh be consigned to Satan fo r destruction o f his body and s till the soul be saved? This is what I Corinthians 5 :5 seems to teach. ” A. It will help greatly to
tolerated in the church. The Spirit of God was setting down guide lines for the later years which would follow. We see the same judgment come upon Anannias and Saphira. We can all be thankful that this is not the way God is dealing with His children now or we would have a lot of Christians filling the undertakers’ parlors. God wanted to show at the beginning of the church age that such activity could not be allowed to go unchecked. In this case, those involved were not repentant at all. Paul must have been on his knees many times praying for these people. He had waited on the Lord to get His will and guidance in this despicable matter. He had every right and
understand the verse on the basis of the context which is given. Corinth was a very liscentious and immoral city. To “ corinthianize” meant to run the entire span of that which is lewd and ungodly. The case which is cited here concerns a Christian man who so forgot his position in Christ, having just come out of paganism, that he committed immorality w ith his father’s wife. This apparently was his stepmother. Such a vile act of evil could not be
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