Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started. When we get started, we're going to be picking up St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians chapter 15, verse 29, where we left off last time. And so to get us

sort of caught up to where we were in this 15th chapter

of 1st Corinthians, St. Paul has been talking to us concerning the resurrection of the dead.

He began by addressing apparently some significant portion of the dead. He began by addressing apparently some significant portion of the community in Corinth,

which did not accept the reality of the resurrection of the dead, primarily with regard to believers

and others, to humans in the world. And in order to argue against it, St. Paul's first tact was to point out, well, if people

are not raised from the dead, then that would mean Christ is not raised from the dead.

And then to enumerate all the consequences of what that would mean, if that were true,

that Christ had not been raised from the dead.

And so St. Paul began really by

setting up this link between Christ's resurrection and our resurrection, by folding those two together.

He then went on after talking about all the evidence for Christ's resurrection, because by

demonstrating the reality of Christ's resurrection, because by demonstrating the reality of Christ's resurrection,

he then would connect that to our resurrection. He then, as we talked about last time,

and as we saw last time, moved on to talk about the resurrection of the dead in general,

the resurrection of all humanity that takes place on the last day.

And so he spoke at length about Christ's glorious appearing, sometimes called his second

coming. We talked last time about why I think that language is a little bit misleading,

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