1 Corinthians 13 hurt him and made him feel “marginalized”????????? Its King James version is one of the most beautiful scripts in the English language. It is one of the foundational messages of Christianity. My mother asked that it be the basis of the sermon at her funeral. It was read to her on her deathbed. If this poor student can’t hear this verse without feeling hurt and “marginalized,” he will have a very, very difficult path through life.
I’d have one question about the context, however.
Do they really believe in an effectual (not just a symbolic) God, those who are preaching it? And make it clear that they do?
Because if they don’t — the student really has a point. Being told he has to do this stuff, and no God to help him along as is needful (in fact the passage is deep in a church context so there is no question about that).
Studying alot about end times prophecy, I know so many have said it is eminent, in Gods time it is immenient but to Him a thousand years as is a day and a day a thousand years. In Exe. 38 and Palms 83 are many end times prophecies. The utter destruction of Damascus in a night, the uninhabitable Egypt for 40 years, the attacks on Isreal. Recently learned that the first all nations big attack on Israel, the ADF will defeat the attackers, but the second big attack will be defeated by God Almighty and everyone will know it and all Muslims will proclaim Jehovah as the one true God. That is prophecied, still hard to believe.
These are all events foretold that will happen, but the more I learn about them the more I learn in Gods time, not ours.