...we come to the heart of the matter, and we are satisfied. You are the companion now of all our days. 'If Christ has not been raised then our proclamation...has been in vain, and your faith has been in vain. ' 1 Corinthians 15 vs 14 He ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty...

...good news and no reason to keep the memory of Jesus alive. Paul's logic has endured through the ages: "and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation...has been in vain and your faith has been in vain" (1 Cor 15:14). The Easter story still rivets many people's attention on the glory which we all hope...

...generally expected resurrection, Christ's resurrection, and our own resurrection are interrelated: "If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching has been in vain and our faith has IKVO in vain If Christ has not been raised, your faith...

...this statement only a score of years after the first Easter. 188 EXPLANATIONS 23 Doubts and Skepticism If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation...has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. ... If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied, i CORINTHIANS...

...in regarding the resurrection as the keystone; take that away and the whole edifice would collapse: "If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith is in vain" (1 Cor 15:14). "The crucifixion without its sequel in resurrection would not have revealed...

...himself. Given this belief, asks Paul, 'how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised' (i Cor 15:11-13). The denial of the resurrection has been explained in various ways/'1 One possibility...

...do-or-die, either-or quality of it. Again, we can break down the argument to its simplest components: If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, then the apostles' preaching is in vain. If Christ has not been raised,...

...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; *Midrash was essentially an expository commentary on scripture, but it never included the invention...

...resurrection. And this in a double sense: first, on the resurrection everything else depends. "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" (i Cor. 15:...

...gospel scarcely qualifies as good advice, much less "good news." Paul, quoted above, had it right: "If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain." Three related but somewhat less acute problems also are raised by science. The first concerns the early...