Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Corinthians 15-16.
As Paul wraps up his letter to the Corinthians, he gives us the basic which everyone must believe about Jesus in order to be a Christian.
- Jesus died for our sins
- He was buried
- He was raised from the dead on the third day as foretold by the Scriptures
Paul makes the explicit point that both he and all of the other Apostles (and apostles) taught these three things. From there he goes on to emphasize one of those, one with which the Believers in Corinth were apparently struggling: that Jesus was raised from the dead. Paul points out that if Jesus did not truly rise from the dead that all of those who preached about what he taught were liars. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then everything Christianity teaches is a falsehood and has no value. Further, Paul writes that if one does not believe in the resurrection of the dead, one should not follow Jesus’ moral teachings, that without the resurrection of the dead Jesus’ teachings are bad advice.
I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.