1 Corinthians
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Absurdities in 1 Corinthians

  1. Poor Paul is confused. First he says that he baptized no one. Well, except for Crispus and Gaius. And maybe Stephanus and his household. He can't remember if he did it to anyone else. 1:14-16

  2. God saves fools and is pleased with their foolishness. 1:21

  3. God has "chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise." 1:27

  4. If you are to be a good Christian you must try to know nothing (except for Jesus, of course). 2:2-5

  5. Paul establishes his own cult (Christianity) by telling others to follow him. 4:16

  6. A believer should not sue another believer in court. 6:6-7

  7. Paul asks if he should "take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?" He further asks, "Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?" 6:15-16

  8. "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord." Really? So this stuff is in scripture but is not inspired by God? 7:12

  9. Paul says those who are circumcised should "not become uncircumcised." (It's pretty hard to undo.) 7:18

  10. Slaves should not desire their freedom. Yet they should not be the servants of men. 7:21, 23

  11. "Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment." So this is just Paul's opinion and is not divinely inspired scripture? 7:25

  12. Paul, like Jesus and the other New Testament writers, expects the end to come soon. "The time is short." So there's no time for sex or marriage since the world will be ending soon. 7:29

  13. Don't be an idolater. If you become one, God will make you sit down to eat and then rise up to play. 10:7

  14. If you tempt Christ (How could you tempt Christ?), you'll will die from snake bites. 10:9

  15. If you murmur, you'll be destroyed by the destroyer (God). 10:10

  16. Gentiles sacrifice to devils. If you have gentile friends, then you are friends with devils. 10:20

  17. In Galatians (1:10) Paul says, "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." In this verse he says, "I please all men in all things." Therefore Paul is not the servant of Christ. 10:33

  18. Paul says that everyone should follow him -- not Jesus. He'll take care of all that for you. 11:1

  19. Every man who prays or prophesies while wearing a hat dishonors his head. 11:4

  20. God likes short hair on men and long hair on women. 11:13-15

  21. Those who eat and drink unworthily often get sick and die. 11:30

  22. "Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail."
    Paul prophesies that all prophecies will fail. But since this itself is a prophecy, it also will fail (if the prophecy is correct), making it a false prophecy. 13:8

  23. "But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." 14:38

  24. "He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve."
    But Judas hanged himself (Matthew 27:3-5) and Matthias was not elected (Acts 1:9-26) until after the ascension. 15:5

  25. This is the verse that the Mormons use to justify their belief in the baptism of the dead. 15:29

  26. Paul shows his ignorance (and God's) of biology by saying that only dead seeds will germinate. Actually, a seed must be alive to germinate. 15:36