Who came into Corinth and what was the city like when he arrived?
The Apostle Paul came into Corinth, a city immersed in gross immorality, temple prostitution, and great commerce and trade. He arrived as a lone man into this environment where up to a thousand prostitutes served in the temple, and the city was fully engaged in immoral religious practice.
Les explains that Corinth was a city programmed to gross immorality, with temple prostitutes operating as the goddesses of the temple. Up to 1,000 served there, a humongous number for a city that size. It was also a center of great activity in commerce and trade. Into this very midst came one lone man—Paul. Les marvels that Christianity ever survived, noting Paul was physically downtrodden, beaten, and not a specimen of health, yet he persevered and established churches everywhere, which brings us to Christianity today.