Apologetics and Evidence

Let’s begin by looking at 2 Corinthians 2:5-11.    “Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So, I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”   Paul is talking in this passage about the person who stirred up trouble for him in the passage immediately before this. The person stirred up trouble by spreading the idea that Paul is not an Apostle. But here, Paul belittles the pain that may have been caused to him for the ...