. The unchanging Christ. XIII. TWlbat corner of a 2)eab Cbrfet And if Christ be not risen, then is oar preaching vain, and yourfaith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses ofGod.—I Cor. XV. 14, 15. ^^QE do not prove that an event has hap-pened by showing the advantages ofbelieving that it has. And so thestatement of consequences of thedenial of the Resurrection in thiscontext is not intended as proof of the reality ofthe Resurrection. Paul has established that in theprevious part of the chapter by the only legitimateevidence—viz., the testimony of he deals with
. The unchanging Christ. XIII. TWlbat corner of a 2)eab Cbrfet And if Christ be not risen, then is oar preaching vain, and yourfaith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses ofGod.—I Cor. XV. 14, 15. ^^QE do not prove that an event has hap-pened by showing the advantages ofbelieving that it has. And so thestatement of consequences of thedenial of the Resurrection in thiscontext is not intended as proof of the reality ofthe Resurrection. Paul has established that in theprevious part of the chapter by the only legitimateevidence—viz., the testimony of he deals with the results that would followfrom the denial of a Resurrection in order to show,not that it has verily taken place, but that thebelief of it is fundamental to all real Christianbelief. The peculiar form of heresy against which theApostle is arguing—viz, the denial of a generalresurrection of the dead, accompanied with anacceptance of Christs Resurrection, does notconcern us now. Nor are we concerned with theplace i
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