Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, Part 27.

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Today we want to continue our study of Paul's letter to the Corinthians, first letter that is, chapter 15.

You remember last time we saw how Paul offers a very simple, logical argument

to refute the Corinthian heresy that the dead are not raised.

Paul reasons in verses 12 and 13, if the dead are not raised, then Christ has

not been raised. But then premise 2, verse 20, but in fact Christ has been raised from the dead,

from which it follows logically that therefore the dead are raised. Now today we come to the

second half of the chapter, the nature of the resurrection body, which

is verses 35 through 57.

In these verses, Paul provides his solution to the Corinthian heresy.

He shows why the Corinthians are wrong in thinking that there is no resurrection of the dead.

So let's read together what Paul has to say in 1 Corinthians 15, verses 35 through 57.

But someone will ask, how are the dead raised?

With what kind of body do they come?

You foolish man, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body, which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat

or some other grain.

But God gives it a body as He has chosen and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals,

another for birds, and another for fish.

There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies.

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