![]() Still, I know One to champion me at last, There were times when a man felt that, if God be God at all, there must be something which would reverse the incomprehensible verdicts of this world. It is true that in the Old Testament there are some few, some very few, glimpses of a real life to come. McFadyen, a great Old Testament scholar, says that this lack of a belief in immortality in the Old Testament is due "to the power with which those men apprehended God in this world." He goes on to say, "There are few more wonderful things than this in the long story of religion, that for centuries men lived the noblest lives, doing their duties and bearing their sorrows, without hope of future reward and they did this because in all their going out and coming in they were very sure of God." ![]() Their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither glory nor The dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from Who shall give praise to the Most High in the grave? Is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom, in ![]() Your hand finds to do do it with your might for there ( Psalms 39:13).īut he who is joined with all the living has hope for a livingĭog is better than a dead lion. Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go downįor Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee Known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of Grave? Or thy faithfulness in Abaddon? Are thy wonders ![]() Up to praise thee? Is thy steadfast love declared in the Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?ĭost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise What profit is there in my death if I go down to the pit? The Old Testament is full of this bleak, grim pessimism regarding what is to happen after death.įor in death there is no remembrance of thee: in Sheol Sheol, often wrongly translated Hell, was a gray land beneath the world, where the dead lived a shadowy existence, without strength, without light, cut off alike from men and from God. According to the general Old Testament belief all men, without distinction, went to Sheol after death. In the Old Testament there is very little hope of anything that can be called life after death. There was therefore one line of Jewish thought which completely denied both the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body ( Acts 23:8). To the end of the day the Sadducees denied that there was any life after death at all. (ii) In any early Christian church there must have been two backgrounds, for in all churches there were Jews and Greeks.įirst, there was the Jewish background. (i) It is of great importance to remember that the Corinthians were denying not the Resurrection of Jesus Christ but the resurrection of the body and what Paul was insistent upon was that if a man denied the resurrection of the body he thereby denied the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and therefore emptied the Christian message of its truth and the Christian life of its reality. So then, before we study the chapter, there are certain things we would do well to have in mind. The chapter will be far less difficult if we study it against its background, and even that troublesome phrase will become quite clear and acceptable when we realize what Paul really meant by it. Not only is it in itself difficult, but it has also given to the creed a phrase which many people have grave difficulty in affirming, for it is from this chapter that we mainly derive the idea of the resurrection of the body. JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 )ġ Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult chapters in the New Testament.
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