The two New Testament epistles ascribed to the Apostle Peter are lesser known by most Christians than the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. Some scholars believe that First Peter may have been written to young Christians and may have even served as a 'catechism' for those about to be water baptised. In this episode, we look at how Peter presents God as Father, Son, and Spirit, and how Christianity commences with becoming 'born again'. But this is not where Christianity ends - and that aged Apostle Peter gives instructions on how a new believer is to grow in the faith by exploring what the knowledge of God and HIs grace requires. In this episode Dr. Corbett discusses what the Apostle Peter, the only married person of the original 12 disciples, had to say about how Christ and then Christianity has redically reinstituted what marriage was always meant to be.

The two New Testament epistles ascribed to the Apostle Peter are lesser known by most Christians than the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. Some scholars believe that First Peter may have been written to young Christians and may have even served as a 'catechism' for those about to be water baptised. In this episode, we look at how Peter presents God as Father, Son, and Spirit, and how Christianity commences with becoming 'born again'. But this is not where Christianity ends - and that aged Apostle Peter gives instructions on how a new believer is to grow in the faith by exploring what the knowledge of God and HIs grace requires.

The two New Testament epistles ascribed to the Apostle Peter are lesser known by most Christians than the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. Some scholars believe that First Peter may have been written to young Christians and may have even served as a 'catechism' for those about to be water baptised. In this episode, we look at how Peter presents God as Father, Son, and Spirit, and how Christianity commences with becoming 'born again'. But this is not where Christianity ends - and that aged Apostle Peter gives instructions on how a new believer is to grow in the faith by exploring what the knowledge of God and HIs grace requires.

The first century Corinthian church had lost its understanding of what the gospel truly meant. They had become beguiled into accepting what certain false teachers had been saying against the apostle Paul and had been led to believe that there was more to Christianity than what Paul had been able to tell them. As a result they, they now bragged about their new found knowledge and spirituality. This is why Paul exercised his apostolic authority to correct the Corinthians and rebuke them for their lax stance on godly morality and conduct. In First Corinthians 15 he begins to remind them of the basic truths of the Christian gospel and indicates to them just how ignorant they had become despite them arrogantly claiming that they possessed more knowledge than the apostle himself.

Paul reminds the Corinthians that the Christianity they embraced was because of the truthfulness of the gospel they accepted and received. This gospel had been contested by some promoting a false gospel. Paul counters these errors with a reminder that the gospel they received also came with apostolic authority. This apostolic authority is now resident in the New Testament documents. The New Testament now forms the basis for Christians being able to discern truth from error.

The Christian message is called the gospel. This word means "good news". It is good news because it announces how a person can have their sin, guilt, and shame, forever dealt with by putting their trust is Jesus the Christ. This trust is not mere wishful thinking. On the contrary, it is grounded in verifiable truth claims. These include (i) the fulfilment of prophecies given hundreds of years before the birth of the Christ (most notably Isaiah 53); (ii) the testimonies of witnesses to the death, buriel, and physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth; and, (iii) the phenomenological experiences of those who put their trust in this Christ as the Saviour and God.

Christianity is not merely a religion filled with rituals and observances to be kept. The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that it was a message which they experienced. Indeed, even today the Holy Spirit is still at work through the preaching of the gospel to bring people to experience the gospel of God so their burdens of sin, guilt and shame, are taken away in an instant. It is the reception of the gospel which opens spiritually blind eyes, unstops spiritually deaf ears to be able to hear the voice of God, and officiates the adoption of lost souls into the Kingdom and family of God!

When Paul wrote to the Corinthians in AD 51, there were several deeply concerning problems which needed to be addressed urgently. After doing so in the first 14 chapters of the Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul declares how these problems can be resolved and avoided - if they would just be continually reminded the Gospel truths about what Jesus the Christ had done for each of them. Added to this, he states that these truths are grounded in historically verifiable proofs. This is Part 6 of this Reminder Series - A Reminder about the Gospel I Preached to You.

In the mid-first century, the apostle Paul writes to a church in turmoil and reminds them of why and how they had become Christians. The ten things initial things he wants to remind them of are still just as relevant for today. In this episode we consider his reminder to the Corinthians to "hold fast" to the gospel he is also reminding them of.

The Apostle Paul had written to the Corinthians Church to address the damage which had been done by the false teachers who had sown deception among the Corinthians. In First Corinthians 15 Paul makes one more appeal to the Corinthians as their overseeing apostle. This appeal was to remind the Corinthians of the gospel. Paul gives reasons for the Corinthians to reflect on the power of the gospel which brought them out of spiritual darkness and death - into glorious light and life. When the apostle had preached the gospel to the Corinthians it was the power of the Holy Spirit which quickened this Word into the souls. Paul reminds them of this gospel. It was this Spirit anointed gospel preaching which had enabled the Corinthians to continue "being saved."