First Importance

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Corinthians 15:1–11 LSB

Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep. After that, He appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, and not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

Fundamentals of the Bible

Literal interpretation of the passage - “common sense” approach

Historically accurate (Infallible)

Scientifically relevant (Inerrant)

Fundamentals of Sin

The conscientious decision to rebel against the established order of God. Lawlessness. All who have been born through the seed of the male gender; are sinners.

Fundamentals of Death

The separation of: all vital functions

life

something inanimate

Burial: a verb to bury, enclose, dig, grave, to lay the decease to “rest.”

Fundamentals of the Resurrection

rising again to life of all human dead

Must be dead brought back to life

Judaism - Not dead until 3 days have passed

Romanism - Pronounced dead by a soldier

Modernism - Pronounced dead by medical profession/coroner

New body

resuscitate - to reawaken, to rouse, to put in motion

Greatest cause of doubt, arguments, and disbelief

Fundamentals of the New Body (Appearance)

Witnessed by Cephas and James

Witnessed by 500 people

Witnessed by Paul himself

Evidence by Conspiracy Theory