Grace Kills and Makes Alive
In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul addresses the fourth and final major issue in the Corinthian church: some of them are denying the resurrection of the body. (In Greek, literally “the rising of the corpses.”)
What’s fascinating is that in all the issues he addresses in the letter this is the only time he does not directly correct their behavior. In chapter 15 he is correcting their theology. But can beliefs and behaviors be so easily separated?
In his commentary Richard Hays suggests that the Corinthians’ denial of the resurrection may be at the heart of all their behavioral problems:
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