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1 Corinthians 13

Recently I had attended a church service where the priest discussed 1 Corinthians 13. This is a very common topic of discussion when it comes to services and masses, but the priest that presented the chapter of Corinthians seemed to use many different versions of rhetoric to move his main idea across the mass’ attendance. When he first began his homily, he appealed greatly to the credibility of the Bible and used ethos to explain how God is the author and creator of all things, in which case we should therefore listen and follow this passage. The priest then went on to explain that if we do not strive follow the passage in the way that we love and act, then we would not be virtuous followers of Christ, presenting us with the bifurcation fallacy.

Near to the end of his homily, the priest began to use pathos by trying to pull at the spirits pf the audience only to uplift them. He told the congregation that if they do not always look to live in such a way as 1 Corinthians 13, they would not live a happy life. They would never be able to fulfill and reach true happiness. As soon as he successfully got this point across to the people attending the church service, he proceeded to joyously tell them that as long as they live in the word of Christ and walk by his ways, as described in 1 Corinthians 13, our lives will be full of his grace and mercy.

I will admit that the priest did an excellent job of presenting 1 Corinthians 13 as a holy and good guideline to follow, but as a student learning about fallacies and illogical arguments, I found it difficult to follow his sermon due to the amount of error within it.
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  1. AnonymousMarch 29, 2016 at 7:45 AM

    It would have been hard for me to find fallacies out because of excellent presentation. I never thought of these fallacies too. I like this and you are good at pointing out!

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  2. AnonymousApril 1, 2016 at 5:11 PM

    I love how you found the ethos, pathos, and logos. Also I agree with you, I find it harder to follow peoples' sermons when I catch them using fallacies. Great job!

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  3. AnonymousApril 1, 2016 at 8:54 PM

    I can understand this verse through your essay. You told what he said clearly and thoroughly. It seems to me that it did have some error in his sermon.

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  4. AnonymousApril 1, 2016 at 9:29 PM

    Well, you can't go wrong with appealing to God's credibility, so he did a good job with that. Well written, Hannah.

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