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Season 5 Episode 11 "Dangerous Faith: Righteousness Over Rhetoric"

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What's So Crazy About That?

In Corinth, Paul says he did not come proclaiming the testimony of God with a lofty speech and wisdom. The reason why Paul is saying this to the Corinthian is he's saying, I know that y'all love rhetoric. And if y'all understand the background, Corinth had the sophists, which were rhetoricitians who would go around and they would speak. They loved using all kind of lofty language and words and it entertained people. So as the Corinthian church gets set up, Paul sets this church up but you have all of these folks that are coming through and teaching the word of God,. You have Paul, you have Apollos, right?They start doing

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