In this portion of First Corinthians, Paul is still responding to the practical questions of the Corinthian Christians. Now he turns his attention to dealing with the problems regarding relationships that existed in the Corinthian church. There was a party in the church that said marriage was absolutely required, and there was an even larger party influenced by Greek philosophy that felt that marriage was a bad thing. Rather than viewing the union between husband and wife that occurs in marriage as God's good gift, something that brought about the increase of a godly seed and which prevented fornication, these people viewed it as unholy and always sinful.
Paul had already warned that not everyone had the gift of singleness and that it was better to marry than to burn, and now he is dealing with the issue of those in the church who were already married who may have been receiving advice that they should divorce in order to live more holy lives of asceticicism devoted entirely to the Lord. Therefore Paul is going to discuss the situation of the married and whether they should in fact, get a divorce. In particular he is going to address the thorny issue of what to do if you are a believer married to an unbeliever.
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I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
