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Originally Posted by Ohio
Ok, I'll spell it out. The idolatrous city of Corinth had much daily talk about their many gods and many lords. These were all unseen gods and lords, to be worshiped by the pagans with their priests, who offered sacrifices to them. In fact all foods were sacrificed to these gods and lords. Many of these had statues too. Many of the Corinthians had their own favorite god and lord. This pagan culture, with these pagan gods and lords, with these pagan sacrifices and practices were all counterfeits of the real "thing," the reality who is Christ, worshiped by the saints.
Paul used this as background to compare. He provided a parallel and a contrast. To us there is one God. To us there is one Lord. Paul's emphasis here was on "one." One God. One Lord. Then he added some description. He could have called God the Creator, like he did in Athens. He could have called Jesus the promised Messiah, like he usually did with a Jewish audience. He could have said, "Lord of lords and God of gods."
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Ohio, if you would, check every letter Paul wrote, he starts out basically with Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This is Paul’s thinking, understanding, that he conveys in every one of his letters.
Let’s look at 1Cor1
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; 5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge; 6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; 8who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
And 2cor 1 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
I think by reading these two sections you can see God is God and Christ is Christ. When Paul says One God, the Father he means one God, the Father. When he says one lord, he says to us, that one Lord is Jesus.
Look what Peter and the 11 preached as the gospel Acts 2 29Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day. 30Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne; 31he foreseeing this'spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 32This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
34For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet. 36Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.
Jesus is Lord because God gave him that position.