...arch of the christian faith : so that, as the apostle Paul strongly and unanswerably reasons, " if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and our faith is also vain." Yea, saith the apostle, (as if he had said, and that...

...proves that with the doctrine of the resurrection, Christianity itself must stand or fall : "if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is 'Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preach<ing vain, and your faith also is vain." Having thus substantiated the general fact, he enters...

...among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, 13 then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching 14 vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses 15 of God...

...body™. If Christ did not die, he could not rise again ; and when St. Paul said to the Corinthians, If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen, (xv.13.) the argument which he really wished to urge was this — Christ is risen, therefore there...

...then is Christ not raised ; and if Christ be not raised, our preaching is vain, and your faith also is vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God...raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that dead are not raised : for if dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised,...

...the hopes and comforts of believers. " If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is not Christ risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching...also vain : yea, and we are found false witnesses for God. And if Christ be not raised, — ye are yet in your sins : then they also which are fallen...

...Where is he to turn for strength? Where is he to turn for hope? The Christian Apostles Lied. "Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we...testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up-—if in fact the dead do not rise" (1 Corinthians 15:15). If Christ did not rise,...

...in a passage quoted by Coleridge, "we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable";332 "If there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain."333 "I cannot conceive a 326 AR (1825) 136. 330 Ibid,...

...(26:8). In 1 Corinthians 15:13-14 (cf. w. 16-17) he confesses as the fundamental truth of our faith: "if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." The goal of the Christian life is to "attain unto...

...Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. (I Corinthians 15: 12-13) Paul's solution to the dilemma of resurrection is to propose that we all...