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What are the implications if Jesus did not rise from the dead according to the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15?
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Then everything that we are hoping for is all in vain.
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If, Jesus did not rise from the dead Christianity and our faith would be empty and void. If Christ did rise from the dead all of humanity will have fallen for the greatest hoax to ever befall mankind. If God the Father did not raise Jesus from the the grave that would mean that God is a liar and cannot be trusted. It would mean that heaven and hell do not exist and that life is meaningless. But! Jesus was raised from the dead and He has triumphed over sin and death. How do I know this? Because the very Word of God says so. The Bible is a living breathing document, it is the very breath of God as He spoke to chosen men through inspiration and the moving of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is the only book to ever stand the test of time and many attempts to discredit and even destroy it throughout the ages. As I said, it is God breathed, it is filled with the very words of the one and only true God. Of which cannot lie for God is perfect, the author of truth and since He is the author of truth He cannot lie and what He says just is. There is an old saying that state “God said it, I believe it, that settles it”. But what it should say is “God said it ,that settles it. Period
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If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, then the work of salvation is not finished and my hope of eternal life is void. My faith would be empty and my attendance at church would be unnecessary because there would be nothing important to listen to. I would then die in my sins, never knowing the saving grace of a loving Heavenly Father. If there was no resurrection, there would be no hope, no salvation, no loving Father, no Holy Spirit to convict me of my sin. The world would be an empty, lonely place.
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The resurrection is central and critical to the Faith we have received from God Himself, because the wages of sin is death and God appeared in the flesh to bring not only Himself but us back to the life He intended for us to have. Paul through the Spirit argues that if there is no resurrection, there was really no point on Him becoming flesh and the “Perfect Sacrifice for our sins”. So we would still be in the Old Testament instead of the “New Covenant of His Blood”, this still waiting for”the Promise”.
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If Jesus did not risen from the dead than we as follows of Christ and Christians are doomed to eternal damnation .
