Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God,.... The apostles were chosen to be witnesses of the resurrection of Christ; he appeared to them, and was seen by them for this purpose; and they were sent into all the world, to bear their testimony to this truth, which they accordingly did: now if Christ is not risen, they have bore a false testimony; and...
15. We are also found to be false witnesses. The other disadvantages, it is true, which he has just now recounted, were more serious, as regards us — that faith was made vain — that the whole doctrine of the gospel was useless and worthless, and that we were bereft of all hope of salvation.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:12-19