Paul asks them to put with his "foolishness". What he means is that he is going to have to speak about himself, seeming to boast, in order to counteract the talk of the false apostles.
Paul's prime concern was not himself, but Christ, and his desire was to see the Corinthians presented to Christ as a "pure virgin", ie with complete devotion to Jesus alone.
Eve was led astray by the serpent, she was deceived. The serpent said that God did not want them to become like Him. In fact this was a complete lie, for God made us in His image, and being like God is precisely the thing that He does want. Jesus came to restore the broken image, and in Christ we see what we should be like. The enemy will try and use deception to stop that happening.
Notice that the mind is a battlefield. We are to have constantly renewed minds. Christianity is most definitely not a matter of kissing our brains goodbye, instead we need to feed constantly on the word of God so that our minds can be renewed by the Holy Spirit.
There is only one gospel, one Jesus Christ, and one Holy Spirit. Yet the Corinthians were tolerating false teaching. We need great wisdom in knowing the difference between being patient with people and tolerating evil.
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