The Interesting Bible

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For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? I wrote as I did so that when I came I should not be distressed by those who ought to make me rejoice. I have confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. (2 Corinthians 2: 3)

Journal
The letter Paul mentioned here (and 2 Co 2:9; 7:8,12) is not 1 Corinthians, but a letter written in between 1 and 2 Corinthians. Paul also wrote a letter to the Corinthians before he wrote 1 Corinthians (1 Co 5:9) but this letter is also lost. So, in total, Paul wrote 4 letters to them.

You ask: So the bible is incomplete. Thus, no reliable.
We respond: No all letter Paul wrote was inspired by the Spirit.

[ Resources: David Guzik's commentary and Tyndale Life Application Study Bible Page 2482, 2485 ]

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. (2 Co 12: 2)

Journal
Third heaven. The third heaven doesn't suggest different "levels" of heaven, like good, better and best. Instead, Paul is using terminology common in that day, which referred to the "blue sky" as the first heaven, the "starry sky" as the second heaven, and the third heaven as the place where God lived and reigned.