Christ Was Raised to LifeMy friends, I want you to remember the message that I preached and that you believed and trusted. You will be saved by this message, if you hold firmly to it. But if you don’t, your faith was all for nothing.
I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. That part is:Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say.
He was buried, and three days later he was raised to life, as the Scriptures say.
Christ appeared to Peter,[a] then to the twelve.
After this, he appeared to more than five hundred other followers. Most of them are still alive, but some have died.
He also appeared to James, and then to all of the apostles.
Finally, he appeared to me, even though I am like someone who was born at the wrong time.[b]
Paul, apostle of Jesus, (a.k.a. Saul of Tarsus), former enemy, and vigilante anti Jesus' followers, writing in his first Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 15: 1-7.
Like this example from Paul, the NT writers are insistent on the fact of Jesus alive from the dead to die no more.
(Paul reminds the believers in Corinth of the core of his message to them and then goes on to discuss their question about resurrection bodies.)
Scripture quotation from the Contemporary English Version Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society, Used by Permission.
