Naked Bible 014: The Lord’s Supper and 1 Corinthians 8-11, Part 1

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This episode transitions the discussion of a biblical theology of the Lord's Supper to the primary passage in the New Testament on the topic: 1 Corinthians 11. The episode focuses on the context of 1 Corinthians 8-10 for informing what Paul says about the Lord's Supper in chapter 11. The "fellowship context" of the Lord's Supper is shown to be important for understanding the issues Paul will get into in 1 Corinthians 11. Paul wants believers to know that they "partake" of a meal by which they enjoy fellowship (koinoinia) with the Lord. His context for that thought is the partaking of OT priests in sacrificial meat (though not of the sacrifices for atonement or sin offering), and the demonic "fellowship" that is the result of pagan sacrifice -- his primary concern in the disputation over meat sacrificed to idols in 1 Cor 8-10.

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0:00.0	KurtnisOO Blackout
0:23.2	Sebastian boyfriend
0:27.0	émon
0:27.9	nine
0:28.9	four
0:29.9	at nakedbibleblog.com.
0:32.7	Welcome back to the naked Bible podcast.
0:36.1	In my previous Lord's supper podcast episodes, I went through John chapter six.
0:42.0	The chapter that often causes a lot of the confusion that I described when introducing
0:47.4	this topic.
0:49.4	That's the chapter that has Jesus talking about the need to eat his flesh and drink
0:53.5	his blood since his flesh and blood were the bread and wine.
0:57.8	In the course of discussing that chapter, I tried to telegraph a few points about the
1:02.5	doctrine of the Lord's supper.
1:05.1	One, I don't really care to articulate a doctrine of the Lord's supper on the basis of
1:10.5	what is not said in the text.
1:13.5	Biblical theology derives from the text, not our imagination, or our traditions.
1:19.5	We shouldn't do theology by speculation, even when that speculation turns into denominational
1:25.3	traditions.
1:27.2	Second, I briefly made the case that John six doesn't really belong in the discussion
1:33.0	of the Lord's supper anyway, no matter how often that connection is made by church traditions
1:38.9	and theology books.
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