14 thoughts on “1 Corinthians 15:19”

    1. One of the many reasons I believe that Jesus is the Messiah and that He lived, died, and was resurrected is because I don’t believe that any human would have been capable of making Him up, or of making up the things He said. So much of what He said is a paradox. Which leads me to believe that He is Truth.

      That isn’t the only or the main reason I believe, but it’s one of them.

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  2. Paul was actually writing closer in time to Jesus’ life than the gospel,writers, and Christianity wasn’t very popular yet. Why would you choose it “in this life” if you believe this life is all there is (which is what Jews believe)? It’s only gonna get you killed in nasty ways. Youd be foolish indeed to choose the creed unless you believed in an eternal reward.

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    1. I am very confused about what Jews believe! 🙂 I met one Rabbi who told me that Jews believe in reincarnation. I encountered a very serious Jewish man on the internet who said that Jews believe that this life is all there is, but then I saw a Rabbi on television who scoffed at the idea that this life is all there is. He believed in Heaven, and he believed that everybody gets to Heaven eventually-he also believed in purgatory, but his belief about purgatory was different from what Catholics believe. Catholics believe that people can end up in purgatory for a very, very, very long time. Like, until the end of time, in some cases. This Rabbi assured us that no one would ever be in purgatory for more than one year.

      The Jewish beliefs about the afterlife that I have heard from various different Jews are all over the map. Has me a little bit confused 🙂

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      1. If you read the OT I think it’s pretty clear. The best thing God can promise a person, as He does Abraham, is a long life and many descendants. Your progeny is your immortality. There’s no Heaven and no Hell ( because no Devil). When Saul calls up dead Samuel, Samuel doesn’t say Why did you bother me, I was having a great time in Heaven—he says “I was sleeping with my forefathers”.. The dead know nothing. God may and often does kill people in nasty ways, but in the OT He doesnt hound them down eternity.

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      1. In fact, ST, don’t many accounts of the early and later martyrs stress how calm, forthright, and even humorous their final encounters/words were?

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      2. It is not what they believed that mattered to those martyrs but whether or not Jesus was the messiah. They were staking their lives on it and taking on the merciless Roman Army when we haven’t the courage to even take on antifa. St. Paul confirms that the whole enchilada here is whether or not the Easter Story is real. Otherwise Jesus Christ was a madman and neither good nor holy whatsoever.

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      3. Absolutely! Lewis’s “Lord, liar, or lunatic.” puts it on point. The martyrs were filled with Christ’s Holy Spirit and convinced that their Savior lived – and that He would keep His promise of a place in the Father’s House for them.

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  3. They’re ‘all over the map’, JaC, because there’s no central teaching authority – Islam borrowed this, too – so every teacher/rabbi can teach his own way. (Remember the “Who is my neighbor?” honestly-asked question to Jesus? It’s because there were any number of ways to answer this: My family members, my immediate neighbors, my fellow Jews, for instance.)

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  4. Most welcome, JaC. Recall also, the Gospel writers stressing that his hearers were amazed that “Jesus taught *with authority*, not like their scribes.”

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