Before that you quoted 1 Corinthians 3:15 out-of-context then twisting the scripture tried to argue that it "really meant" all mankind. Unsaved people don't build on the foundation of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:12
I already responded to your latest post on that. Still waiting for your reply:
What utter, complete rubbish! Another logical fallacy argument from silence "what Paul didn't say." Any/every false heterodox religious group in the world does this same thing. A piece of a verse here and and piece of a verse there they can make the Bible say almost anything they want it to. White isn't really white it is black. Up is not really up it is down etc. Nothing means what it says it is all figurative.
You go on that pointless rant after i said Paul didn't say what you said, etc, namely:
"Sinners are not building anything, of any material, on the foundation of Jesus Christ!"
Now apply your own comments above to that remark of yours for which you provided no support for & just dreamt up out of lala land. What book, chapter and verse is that from, Der Alte's book of imaginations chapter 66, verse 66?
.....Please explain to me how the Corinthians, who first heard/read the Corinthian letters would have understood them? Would they have understood the distorted nonsense you wrote or would they have understood it exactly as it is written?
They should have read the immediate context:
Verse 11 refers to all mankind, including the lost sinner:
1 Cor.3:11 For other foundation can no one lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Verse 11 says that "no one" can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid which is Jesus Christ. The words "no one" are not limited to the saints in Corinth, but refer to all mankind. This is the last reference identifying any group of people in the next several verses leading up to v.15. Thus prior context and the more immediate following context of v.15, namely v.17, both refer to lost sinners. That is the context in which verse 15 is to be interpreted as to who it should refer to:
1 Cor.3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
.....I don't see anywhere Paul, or any other NT writer, furnished their intended audiences with a set of instructions how to correctly interpret all the supposed figurative language hidden in the epistles. It is not likely that any average believer had a copy of any NT letter or book. They certainly didn't have some kind of electronic gadget where they could instantly call up any verse(s) they wanted to to "help" them "correctly" understand the Corinthian letters or any other book. So they could not read all the supposed hidden references such as Jn 1:9 etc.
Compare
Jn.1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
to the following scriptures
Rom.1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
Rom.2:9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek. 11 For God does not show favoritism.12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them. 16 This will come to pass on that day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Acts 17:30
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all men everywhere to repent.
Luke 24:47
and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Acts 17:23
For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with the inscription: To an unknown God. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
Acts 14:16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. 17Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 10:35
but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.'
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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