1 Corinthians 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence in the underworld. The concept of having a physical body after death was known mainly from popular fables. Educated people thought the idea was ridiculous. Paul deals with the Corinthians’ denial of and confusion about the future, bodily resurrection of Christians (vv. 1 Corinthians 15:12, 1 Corinthians 15:35). These issues were probably raised in their letter to him (1 Corinthians 7:1).

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