Paul's contacts with the Corinthian church can be reconstructed as follows:

Paul visits the Corinthian church a second time, as he indicated he would in 1 Corinthians 16:6.

Other members of the Corinthian church, however, viewed the body as hierarchical-as a microcosm of the universe-and were not particularly concerned about body boundaries.

In a letter to the Corinthian church he writes, "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church for a number of reasons.

Some Christians interpret the passage as a cultural mandate that was only for the first-century Corinthian church.

Saint Paul also condemned this situation which was arising in the Corinthian church.

I suggest that he makes his own point-his religious point-entirely clear: he intended to establish the Corinthian church on the model of the divine authority.

In one of his letters to the Corinthian church, Paul directly answers some questions they had asked about this.

Paul wrote this letter to correct what he saw as erroneous views in the Corinthian church.