1 Corinthians 15:12-20
In the opening verses of 1 Corinthians 15, Paul reiterates the main pillar of the gospel—which is the death and resurrection of Jesus as an atonement for sin. This is the main pillar of the gospel, and, as is the case with main pillars, if you try to remove it, things don't go well. But for all the other problems at Corinth, it doesn't seem that anyone was actively trying to deny these facts; that is not the point of this chapter. The Corinthians (as far as we can tell) did affirm the facts that Paul had told them. The problem was another doctrine that had infected the church, which was at odds with this one. We now come to the main subject of this chapter: the problem of the resurrection. There's a song of the world that talks about overcoming difficult situations, and it's titled: “ I Will Survive .” And I saw someone online commenting that this was the song they wanted played at their funeral, just because of how ironic and inappropriate it would be. Because the tr...
