If Christ is dead and there is no resurrection from the dead, then what are the implications of that?

For the Apostle Paul, take away the resurrection, You take away Christianity.

Why is the resurrection so important to Christianity?

Well, let me ask it another way.

Is it conceivable conceivable remotely conceivable that we could have a

meaningful Christian faith apart from resurrection again in our day there are theologians who are

arguing that the resurrection of his historical

event is not necessary for a meaningful Christian faith.

Paul of course had a different view. The whole 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians argues in what we would call ad hominem fashion.

He's faced with a problem in the Corinthian community that some people were denying the reality of resurrection.

And so what Paul does masterfully in 1st Corinthians 15 is two things.

In the first place, he gives us a detailed argument for the resurrection based upon the

fulfilling of scripture, the eyewitness testimony of the apostles of the 500 people and of his own

eyewitness experience.

But then he argues at home and he said, all right, let's take your argument for a minute.

Suppose there is no resurrection of the dead.

If A, what follows?

What's the result of that? Let's take your thinking to its logical conclusion.

If Christ is dead and there is no resurrection from the dead, then what are the implications of that?

And he spells them out. The implications are what? You're still in your sins. Your faith is in vain.

Your faith is useless. Your preaching is futile. You become false witnesses of God because you're telling everybody that God

did in fact raise him from the dead. Not only that but there are other personal

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