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00:00Well then,
00:29We continue with this topic that we are developing at the end of this chapter, of this module, which by the way I take this opportunity to remind you that we are using as our text this book of Pauline Writings by Jordi Sánchez from Editorial Verbo Divino.
00:50This is the textbook I have chosen to move forward and follow the order that Jordi Sánchez proposes here in the development of the writings.
01:01So that you can delve deeper into your studies.
01:07So, this is just a taste, right?
01:12In other words, really, seeing a whole class and trying to develop everything that would be developed through a book that is carried out in person is difficult.
01:26So I do recommend you get your book, right?
01:30It's not a book that costs 100 pesos, it's a slightly more expensive book because it's in Spanish.
01:35But it's worthwhile so that you can expand on what we're saying in our reflection.
01:42And so, continuing with the topic of this theology, a little bit about the theology that Paul begins to develop on sin,
01:53He encountered certain theories about resurrection that at one point could act as a soporific against sin.
02:02I mean, it's no big deal, we're all going to die anyway, so nothing's going to happen, right?
02:07So, for example, we have 1 Corinthians 15:34. I'd like to read this text; it says,
02:13Don't be fooled, bad company corrupts good morals.
02:19Come to your senses as you ought, and do not sin; for there are some among you who do not know God, to the shame of God I say.
02:27If we look at the context, we would have to go back to verse 29.
02:34What will those who are baptized for the dead do?
02:37If the dead are not raised at all, why be baptized for them?
02:42So, we're talking about this whole eschatological topic, which is certainly a theology that isn't easy to understand at any given moment.
02:53especially among the Corinthians, who remember that they are Greek people, people who therefore have a vision of eternity and resurrection completely different from that proposed by the Gospel.
03:08So, that's why we shouldn't be deceived, and we can't use all this to say, well, if we go to mass, bringing it a little into our time, right?
03:19Well, if we go to mass, baptize our children, and confirm them, then our lives can proceed completely apart from the Gospel.
03:28Christianity consists of going to mass, baptizing children, having them make their first communion, getting married in the church, and occasionally attending services to pray the rosary for someone who has died, etc.
03:40Obviously, this is not the case. The Christian life must be a moral life, and the moral life has to do with sin.
03:51Therefore, I must lead a moral, firm life, one that is fully committed to the life proposed by the Gospel.
04:03That is why Saint Paul reaffirms that the issue is about repentance and ceasing to sin.
04:12Let's remember that he is dealing with this community that comes from paganism and that the topic of sin is not something that is very familiar to them.
04:21In fact, they did not have an idea of condemnation and perdition.
04:26So, the moral issue was more about temporal punishments, right?
04:30If someone stole, killed, etc., etc., then whatever their moral code, the law, defined, that was what would prevent them from committing certain acts or not at a given moment.
04:45In Christianity it is not like that.
04:47As we will see a little later, outside the law there is a teaching and a presence of God in our hearts that impels us to do things differently.
04:58Christianity demands a change of life, leaving sin behind.
05:04This was obviously clear to the Jews, well, I mean clear, but I should rather say more or less clear.
05:12It wasn't very, very clear because we see that in their lives, especially after the arrival of Jesus, they didn't really have him very present, right?
05:24But it must have been something that distanced them from God and that they would have to follow, something we see especially with the Pharisees, because it did not happen.
05:34For his part, in the second letter to the Corinthians, the apostle ironically asks in one of his phrases if he committed a sin by renouncing his pay.
05:47In other words, he had renounced receiving a stipend from the Corinthian community.
05:53He lived off his work, and as in the second letter, remember there's a serious problem with an attack, right?
06:03He is being attacked by Judaizers and other enemies to discredit him, isn't he?
06:09As we might particularly see in chapter 11, according to Corinthians chapter 11, in this section, it will link sin as doing something wrong.
06:21And well, certainly sin is something wrong.
06:26It should be clear that sin refers to doing something wrong, whether in the sight of God or others.
06:33Paul, feeling attacked for his humility, then asks if this is actually a bad thing.
06:41It must then be clear that sins are those that go against humility and charity.
06:49of what God has intended for man, and not of what we, according to our customs or the influence of others,
06:58we can think that this is right or that this is wrong.
07:01Many times we let ourselves be swayed by gossip, by bad influences, by what is said.
07:09And this creates a mindset with which we will judge others.
07:15And we do, we end up making a wrong judgment, as is happening in the case of the Corinthians.
07:22Sin is something objective; it is something that transgresses God's law, the law of love.
07:30It's not something I was told, that I think, no.
07:32It is an objective fact that transgresses the will of God.
07:37So humility, well no, on the contrary, right?
07:41However, because of what they had said, because of all this, he was accused, he was attacked.
07:48Then he says, hey, I haven't sinned.
07:51In other words, sin does not consist of doing things that seem wrong to you,
07:56Rather, sin is doing things that God says are wrong.
08:00That's the sin, isn't it?
08:01On the other hand, for Paul it is clear that the Christian life and all that it implies,
08:08It arises from the kerigma.
08:11It says in Greek,
08:12and belongs to Martin me.
08:15In other words, he knew no sin, and God made him sin.
08:21Sin for us.
08:23That is, sacrificed for sin, according to Corinthians 5:21.
08:29And there he understands that it is the death of Christ that redeems sin.
08:35In other words, there is no other way this can be redeemed.
08:40And in this phrase, this phrase of Paul,
08:43Underlying this is the apostle's encounter with God, with Christ,
08:48there on his way to Damascus.
08:50It is not because of human works, he will make this very clear in his letter to the Romans.
08:54but by a mysterious action of God that occurred with the death and resurrection of the Lord,
09:01which is what has completely freed us from sin.
09:05Pablo is convinced that it's precisely from there,
09:09from where the perspective of eternal life arises.
09:13Sin distances us from God,
09:15But to give us access to Him,
09:18It is that Christ dies and rises again,
09:21And that's why he writes,
09:23if the redemption turns out to be false,
09:26we would still be in our sins,
09:28and we would have no possible salvation.
09:321 Corinthians 15:17
09:34That is to say,
09:36There is a fundamental connection between freedom from sin,
09:41and the death of Christ.
09:43A topic that, therefore,
09:46He will fully develop this in his letters,
09:49and especially to the Galatians and the Romans,
09:52where all these concepts,
09:54which he already addresses within his explanation,
09:58and to correct errors,
10:01in this letter,
10:03in the letters of Galatians,
10:05but much more,
10:06much clearer to me,
10:08It is mentioned in the letter to the Romans,
10:09where we can already see a clear theology,
10:12a very well-organized thought,
10:15Yeah?,
10:16of Saint Paul,
10:17where he develops,
10:18TRUE?,
10:19They are now seated in his heart,
10:21and in his thoughts,
10:23the concepts of sin.
10:27The sting of death is sin,
10:30and the power of sin is the law,
10:33as it says in 1 Corinthians 15:56.
10:36Why does Saint Paul say this?
10:39Because one of the fundamental elements that had to be countered,
10:45Well, that was the topic of the Judaizers,
10:47that are based on compliance with the law,
10:50as the element through which people can be saved.
10:54Already from this First Letter,
10:57Paul explains what is true for him.
11:01The law only reveals sin,
11:04He states it,
11:05but it does not redeem him,
11:07nor does it make redemption possible,
11:09It only makes us see the impossibility we have of fulfilling it,
11:12Therefore, sin continues to have life.
11:15in whom he has not received the redemption of Christ.
11:18This expression,
11:20In a clearer thought,
11:22We could already see it in the Letter to the Romans.
11:25The wages of sin is death.
11:28Romans 6:23.
11:29So,
11:31The law does not save.
11:34The law doesn't save.
11:37And it is sin that ultimately comes to kill man,
11:44and this sin,
11:46in Paul's thinking,
11:48It has to do with this relationship with the law.
11:52And that's why the second topic that's important to review,
11:56It is the theme of the law as a failed attempt at salvation.
12:00But we'll be back in a few moments to continue.
12:03And now let's look at the issue,
12:05how well the theme of law is linked to sin,
12:08in this theological vision that Paul is assuming
12:12from their conversion experience.
12:14We'll be right back.
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