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1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 Resurrection

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The implications of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are best discussed in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 in which we see the struggles of the Christians in the Greek city of Corinth living some twenty years after the resurrection. They were afraid of being disembodied souls or spirits after death because they had not embraced the Christian belief that human beings will experience resurrection to eternal life. The apostle Paul addresses the Corinthians' confusion by proclaiming the absolute reality of Christ's bodily resurrection. He reinforces the vital fact of the Christian faith as the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. If the story of the life of Jesus Christ had ended at the crucifixion, there would be no good news to share, no bold church …show more content…

Paul's point is that if all we got out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, if he was only a good moral teacher, then there’s no foundation for a church or religion. Christianity would have just been a small blip in the timeline of world religions. If there is no resurrection, trying to live a life of spiritual wholeness wouldn’t have seemed worth doing or worth teaching to others. Without the resurrection, every person who has ever lived would be hopelessly lost in sin and without something to believe in. The hope inspired by the resurrection called people to the church by giving them a reason to act morally and to trust in the teachings of the apostles. If Christ had remained dead, then when we died we would remain dead and damned as the Bible says the reward of sin is death (Romans 6:23). But Christ indeed has risen from the dead and “has become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep” (v. 20), assuring that we will follow Him in resurrection. This promised an afterlife for Christians and this motivated them to join the church to save themselves and to convince the ones they loved to join as well. Both of these allowed it to spread and build upon itself to be the world wide institution it is

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