Christ gives his peace; church of God; crucified Christ preached

to you.” Then how is the giver of peace not truly God, giving it to the worthy as his own good?

From the First Letter to the Corinthians.

“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes, to the church of God.” Notice: after saying to the Romans, “All the churches of Christ greet you,” when he writes to the Corinthians he says the church is God’s.

“I mean this: each of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Cephas,’ or ‘I belong to Christ.’ Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized into Paul’s name?” So if Christ has not been divided, all things are his and all are his. And if he himself was crucified for us, and we were baptized into his name, we clearly owe ourselves to him. And we belong not to one human among us, but to God. Therefore Christ, the one over us, is God.

“Since Jews ask for a sign and Greeks seek wisdom, we proclaim Christ crucified — a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Greeks.” Would not anyone at all confess that the gospel proclamation calls people across the whole earth to true knowledge of God? Then how, or from where, is this doubtful? How, then, do the mystagogues proclaim Christ crucified? As one of us who endured death on a cross, so that the world’s faith is practiced toward a human? By no means. We have believed in the living God and