The idea of resurrection wasn't made up by paul, he's getting this from what was handed over to him. There wasn't an understanding of resurrection as merely a metaphor for a spiritual after life. And so i'm looking at, you know, matthew 17, just again, just for listeners to realize and hear the intentionality of what jesus is saying. So can happen? The son of man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day. This doesn't seem like some type of takon to the jesus story borrowed from pagan myths or anywhere else. Ad that'
“If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain,” writes the apostle Paul (1 Cor. 15:14), situating the resurrection as the central claim of Christianity—the foundation for the entire biblical worldview. But why is it so important? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Eric Landry, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Doug Powell discuss Christ’s resurrection as a unique claim among world religions. They also work through “The Minimal Facts” put forward by Gary Habermas, equipping listeners with an agreed-upon baseline for proving the historicity of the resurrection and evaluating objections.