of the dead, then is Christ not risen.” The apostle basically says, “If you do not believe in a physical resurrection and deny that the saints will once receive a body like Christ’s, then Christ has not been raised, for he is the head of the body, and believers are members of his body. You cannot separate him from his church. If the church will not be raised, then Christ is not raised either. If we believe only in a spiritual resurrection after we die, then we can only believe in a spiritual resurrection
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