chuckd
Puritan Board Junior
1 Cor. 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
The Greeks certainly believed in an afterlife, but without the resurrection. Acts 17:32
How was the above passage an argument to the Corinthians? They would have accepted an afterlife in which the soul is immortal while the body decayed. To them, those who have fallen asleep have not perished, but their soul lives.
How would they still be in their sins if Christ had died, but not been raised?
The Greeks certainly believed in an afterlife, but without the resurrection. Acts 17:32
How was the above passage an argument to the Corinthians? They would have accepted an afterlife in which the soul is immortal while the body decayed. To them, those who have fallen asleep have not perished, but their soul lives.
How would they still be in their sins if Christ had died, but not been raised?