...preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 15But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. lsWe are...

...saving gospel, Paul proceeds to deal with the Corinthian denial of the idea of bodily resurrection. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. And if that be true, then what the apostles preached is a lie, and a lie about God at that; "Christians" are...

...preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.] Cf. the conclusion...

...brethren at one time" and to Paul himself. Yet even the visions are not regarded as conclusive proof, for "if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised" (1 Cor 15:13). An empty tomb or visions can be explained in various ways and cannot convince anyone...

...with exactly the correct question raised. I hastened on to see how Paul answered his own query.) "Now if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised, and that would mean that I didn't tell the truth in my preaching and your faith is in vain. But I did tell...

...translations they seem to raise questions. The Hebrew construction states Paul's conviction unambiguously: "if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. . . . We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ,...

...of individual believers. Calling it the crux of the entire Christevent, Paul declared unequivocally, "If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain!" (15: 13-14)....

...preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even...

...offered takes on considerable force when the consequences of denying the resurrection are laid out. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then: "Christ has not been raised" (vv. 13, 16); "our preaching is in vain" (v. 14); "your faith is in vain" (w. 14, 1 7); God is being...

...in Corinth "except Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (2:2). And in closing the letter he argues that "if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain... "(15:14). Modern readers approach this topic of Jesus' resurrection with many questions. Did it actually...