Arrogant-entrepreneur-Paul’s political-influence reported in 1 Corinthians 13

The players in the court of human judgement:

A Psalm-82 god and goddess --- 2 civic humans, listening to Yeshua’s influence in Matthew 5:48, trust-and-commit to individually perfect themselves before each dies. They consider entrepreneur Paul’s First Corinthians 13 NKJV, by using “appreciation” to replace “love”, emphasis mine.

The judgement:

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not appreciation, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not appreciation, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not appreciation, it profits me nothing.

⁴ Appreciation suffers long and is kind; appreciation does not envy; appreciation does not parade itself, is not ^[puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Appreciation never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man [by psychologically uniting to a woman], I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

¹³ And now abide faith, hope, appreciation, these three; but the greatest of these is appreciation.

Choices gods facing death may and can take:

If “love” is weaker than appreciation what’s stronger than either faith or hope? Could removing mountains prove faith? In voluntarily burning the body, what profit is hoped for; desirable life in the afterdeath? Can joining the poor aid them? What powers do Pauline churches want?

Appreciation:

Inspired by conversation with Judy, which, considering Agathon’s speech in Plato’s “Symposium”, develops Cynthia’s moon-mystery. In human survival on earth (Genesis 1:26-27), the moon provides order while the sun provides energy; humankind may and can research mystery.

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