Sunday, April 08, 2007

Five hundred reasons I believe in the resurrection of Jesus



For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

Happy Easter!

7 comments:

Dave Miers said...

andy's five just keeps getting better!

He is Risen indeed!

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Nixter said...

Nice one Andy - like it

Andy M said...

Don't give me the credit guys. It's the Apostle Paul!

A very favourite passage of mine.

Nixter said...

yeah but I like that you used that verse on you '5' blog.

amen to Paul ;)

Anonymous said...

Five Reasons Why This Blog Needs a New Post

5) It's been almost five weeks since your last post. Time to post!

4) There are maybe four people who keeps checking weekly to see if there is new content - and I am one of them. Give us some content!

3) Three is two few in a list - five is just right - so give us five reasons!

2) Two out of ten is what I would give this post - we need your ten out of ten posts.

1) One is how many people will be reading your blog if you don't post soon!

Mike

Guthers said...

well said mike!