15:13
The grounds for believing that we will be raised from the dead is that Christ was raised from the dead. But the converse is also true, if we are not raised then Christ was not raised. Christ died as a man and was raised as a man, and He was raised bodily. So to deny that we will be raised from the dead is to deny that Christ was raised, and the evidence clearly shows that Christ was raised.
15:14
Moreover, the preaching of the gospel is useless, or “in vain”. And our faith is likewise in vain. Without the resurrection there is no gospel. For if Christ was not raised then we are still dead in our sins, still under judgement, and at the end we are dead forever. There is no point, and there is no point believing. To put it bluntly, anyone who claims to be a Christian but does not believe in the resurrection is a nutter.
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