Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
You say there is no resurrection? Yet Christ has risen, an incontestable fact, proved by eyewitnesses and foretold in ancient prophecy. Deny the resurrection and you make the apostles false witnesses of God, make preaching vain, and overturn the principal evidence of Christianity itself.
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Commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? (3) The first argument to prove that there is a resurrection from the dead: Christ is risen again, therefore the dead will rise again.
These deniers call themselves Christian and speak openly in the church, yet they contradict what was preached to them and fully proved: Christ arose from the dead. If Christ rose, the resurrection of the dead is beyond question, for His resurrection as head involves that of His people.
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