In Corinthians 1 5:1-5 why is Paul given the right to expel a sinner from church, and also..?

Question

and what does it mean the body is destroyed but the spirit is saved?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%205:1-5;&version=31;

Answer 1

Paul exercised apostalic authority. That means that he like Peter was given spiritual oversight of the churches that he was watching over. Paul didn't expel people from the church to cause them harm. His purpose was first to keep the other members of the church from becoming "infected" by the sinful attitudes and doctrines and behaviors of people who were not living a life according to God's will but also to bring such people under conviction so that they could be restored. Look at a couple of other passages to see what I mean.

2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you. 5 Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part--lest I burden you all. 6 Sufficient to such a person is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority, 7 so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest somehow such a person be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 Therefore I appeal to you to reaffirm your love towards him. 9 For to this end I also wrote, so that I might put you to the test, to see if you are obedient in all things. 10 And to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for if indeed I have forgiven anything, the one whom I have forgiven, I have done so for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 lest we be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness, looking out for yourself lest you also be tempted.

Paul couldn't always be there to settle a difficult situation and he had to look out for the church as a whole while having compassion for individuals.

Acts 20:29-32 For I know this, that savage wolves will come in after my departure, not sparing the flock. 30 Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, in order to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one. 32 So for the present, I entrust you, brothers, to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

The body being destroyed but the spirit saved has to do with the person coming under conviction and crucifying the desires of their flesh. If a person is attending church and living in sin and people just shrug their shoulders and say "Oh well" then that person isn't going to have a strong motive to change their ways.

Answer 2

Well, you have to do some research to understand. Paul was sent to Hijack Christianity and thus he did. This is why Sunday is now the Holy day instead of the Sabath which Jesus himself preserved. Christian practice should resemble jewish practice to almost the letter, but it has now morphed into something totaly different.

Its no secret, if you want to change something, change it from within. By Paul taking power to this degree, he becomes what we would call a religious Dictator. As long as he was backed by money and Greko-Roman influence the real Christianity would never be seen or heard of again.

"Constantine in convoking and presiding over the council signaled a measure of imperial control over the church."

Constantine would make sure of that and seems like thing just kept getting worse...

Answer 3

What paul means is this

A sinner who is so immoral as to marry his mother, must not be allowed to fellowship with other believers for fear that his deeds may start to appear as "normal". Paul wants to send a strong message that such immoral acts are morbid and those who are into such things will be dealt with harshly so as to warn other believers in the church.

Giving him over to satan means God punishing him for back-sliding and then eventually accepting him, after he would have hopefully repented of his sins

If you read the OT, God often used an adversary or an enemy to bring His people Israel back to Him. This is satan's role here. ;)

Answer 4

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of God plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 5

Paul was trying to organize the church in Corinth (hence Corinthians) and this is all about his writings to make the organization firm.

Answer 6

Jesus died to save our Spirit.
Our body will rot and decay when we die, but our Spirit, if saved through Jesus Christ, will be reunited with Him in heaven.

He rebuked the sinner because of the sexual immorality.
God severely warns for His children to stay away from sexual immorality

1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Acts 15:20
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

also, Paul had the authority to rebuke and cast out the spirit of sexual immorality because Jesus has given us the authority to do so:

Luke 10:19
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Mark 16:17
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Hope this helps. God Bless

Answer 7

If your arm gets infected and turns to gangrene, should they make you comfortable as you die or should they cut your arm off?

A sinner (just one) [ a person who has no intention of stopping his sins] is like gangrene!
cut him off or watch the church die from within!

Answer 8

If you read any of St. Paul's writings, you will soon learn he had one hell of an ego.

Answer 9

SAME THING GOES HERE READ THE SURROUNDING VERSES WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS EARTHLY BODY IS GONE AND WE ARE GIVEN A NEW HEAVENLY BODY AND OUR SPIRIT IS SAVED