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Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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A Glaring Contradiction
Paul points out a major inconsistency. The Corinthians accepted the core Christian message that Christ was raised from the dead, a specific historical event. Commentators explain that it is therefore illogical and contradictory to then claim that the resurrection of the dead in general is impossible. If it happened once with Christ, it cannot be dismissed as a general impossibility.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now if Christ, etc. Paul, having stated the direct evidence for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus in 1 Corinthians 15:1–11, p…
Is preached (κηρυσσετα). Personal use of the verb, Christ is preached.
How say some among you? (πως λεγουσ…
19th Century
Anglican
If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead.—Better, is being preached. It has been proved…
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Baptist
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
What! Had th…
Paul now presents his major proposition. Some at Corinth had argued that there was no resurrection of the dead. He replies that this is absolutely …
16th Century
Protestant
But of Christ. He now begins to prove the resurrection of all of us from that of Christ. For a mutual and reciprocal inference applies on …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now if Christ be preached that he arose from the dead As he was by the Apostle Paul, when at Corinth, and by all the…
Having shown that Christ was risen, the apostle answers those who said there would be no resurrection. There would have been no justification or sa…
13th Century
Catholic
Having built up faith in the resurrection of Christ, the Apostle now proves the future resurrection of the dead by means of Christ's resurrection. …
