Bible
Text: I Corinthians 15
Key
Verse: I Corinthians 15:51-55
I Corinthians 15:1-11 good news that I proclaimed to you: Paul summarizes the gospel ("good news") that he had preached to the Corinthians earlier when he lived among them. Paul's description of Christ's resurrection is the earliest written account of appearances of the risen Jesus and a summary of what Paul had preached to the Corinthians. Some of the details are not the same as in the Gospel accounts. It is possible that the accounts of the discovery of the empty tomb circulated only later, after Paul had "received" what he "handed on" to the Corinthians.
I Corinthians 15:12 how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?: probably the Corinthians did not deny that Jesus had been "raised" but took that language in a "spiritual" sense - the same sense in which they believed that they, too, had been "raised" to a place of greater wisdom and knowledge.
I Corinthians 15:28 so that God may be all in all: this is another expression of love at the center of all reality. "So and so is all things to me" was a popular phrase in Paul's day, used by the lover to describe the beloved. The world and God share all things in the future God brings.
I Corinthians 1542-44 resurrection of the dead...raised a spiritual body: Paul says the dead will be raised from the dead with new spiritual bodies that are transformed. this is more than a resurrection of the spirit alone. The church's confession of faith, the Apostle's Creed, speaks of belief in the "resurrection of the body", just as Jesus was resurrected.
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