The final section we looked at on Thursday (1 Cor 15:29-34) contains some of the most puzzling verses in the whole Bible (e.g. the reference to the baptism of the dead, described by Leon Morris as ‘a notorious difficulty’, with many interpretations possible.) The main...

In 1 Cor 15:20-28, Paul moves away from ‘unreal speculation’ about what the consequences would be if Christ had not been raised from the dead to declare unequivocally the consequences of His resurrection! The ‘BUT’ at the beginning of this section is vital, showing us...

When I was a child, one of the games my family used to play at Christmas was called ‘Consequences’. This involved a set of questions, with each person answering one, folding over the paper and passing to the next person to answer the next. The answers were put...