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slave to God
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Key Notes
Paul keeps Jesus' language that God's spirit dwells in people but turns it into a demand that they do God's work.
Paul tells slaves they are free because they belong to the Lord, which Jiang reads as replacing human slavery with divine slavery.
Paul's missionary flexibility is presented as salesman logic: become whatever sells more conversions.
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"Do not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that..."
"Okay, okay. All right. So let's keep on going. Allen, can you read, please?"
"Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self -control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable..."
"...And Paul says, you are free, but you are a slave to God. Do you understand? Okay? Therefore, no human can be a master..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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