.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER 
    I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15:
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    1. In the first four verses of this chapter, what concise definition does Paul give of the gospel?
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    2. What does Paul say about the Corinthians in their relation to this gospel he had preached to them?
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    3. Who does Paul say saw the resurrected Christ, and who last of all saw him?
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    4. With what words does Paul describe himself as an apostle as he spoke of the other apostles?
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    5. "But by the ___________ of God I am what I am: and his ___________ which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more adundantly than they all: yet not I, but the ___________ of God which was with me."
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    6. Although they had received the gospel of the resurrected Christ, what was now being said by some of them?
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    7. What string of awful and depressing things does Paul list that would be true if what some of them were saying was so?
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    8. What comes to mind and what is implied when Paul says that Christ is the "firstfruits of them that slept"?
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    9. "Then cometh the ________ , when he shall have delivered up the ________________ to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power."
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    10. What is the last enemy that will be destroyed?
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    11. What seems to be involved in Paul’s expression of being "baptized for the dead"?
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    12. What three different quotations does Paul use from Greek poets or writers in the New Testament, and what one is used here?
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    13. What questions (2) does Paul say some would be asking in reference to the resurrection from the dead?
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    14. What are some words that are used here to describe the body that dies, and what are some words used to describe the body that will be raised?
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    15. "And as we have borne the image of the _____________ , we shall also bear the image of the ________________ ."
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    16. "Now this I say, brethren, that ______________ and ______________ cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth ____________________ inherit ______________________ ."
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    17. What "mystery" does Paul now tell them and us about?
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    18. How rapidly will the changing into the eternal body take place?
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    19. What did Paul say was the sting of death, what was the strength of sin, and how is the victory gotten?
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    20. On the basis of the great truths dealt with in this chapter, what concluding admonition does Paul leave with his readers?

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    ANSWERS:  1. The death, burial, and resurrecition of Christ; 2. They had received it, were standing in it, and were saved by it if they continued in it--I Cor. 15:1,2; 3.  I Cor. 15:5-8;  4.  I Cor. 15:8,9; 5.  I Cor. 15:10;  6.  I Cor. 15:12 (The Greeks believed the spirit survived the body, but unlike the Christians, they didn't believe there would be a resurrected body);  7.  I Cor. 15:13-19; 8. I Cor. 15:20,23 (Leviticus 23:9-16)--The Jewish feast of the firstfruits of the harvest; "firstfruits" implies that more is to follow (thus our resurrection);  9.  I Cor. 9:24; 10.  I Cor. 15:26; 11.  Being baptized in reference to the dead, their hope of resurrection--I Cor. 15:29; 12.  (1) Acts 17:28 (Cilician poet Aratus); (2) I Cor. 15:33 (Attic poet Meander in Thais); (3) Titus 1:12 (Cretan poet Epimenides in poem Cretica); 13.  I Cor. 15:35;  14.I Cor. 15:42-49;  15.  I Cor. 15:49;  16.  I Cor. 15:50;  17.  I Cor. 15:51,52; 18.  I Cor. 15:52 (In a moment, atomos=uncut, in the twinkling of an eye);  19.  I Cor. 15:55-57; 20.  I Cor. 15:58.
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