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Compare the teaching on the Resurrection in I Corinthians and the Thessalonian letters.

The purpose of this paper is to compare the teaching on the resurrection of Jesus Christ as it is noted in Paul's letter to the Corinthians and Thessalonian letters. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the primary doctrines of study in the Bible because it reveals the victory that believers have over death, hell and the grave. However, the belief in a bodily resurrection has been the central focus of controversy since the death of Jesus Christ.
So, before we begin with our comparison of Paul's teaching on the resurrection, we need to begin by understanding the definition or the literal biblical meaning of the word, ‘resurrection'. Webster's Dictionary tells us that the word, ‘resurrection' means, "a rising from the dead, or coming back to life" (Neufeldt 1145). In the biblical sense the word, ‘resurrection' is taken from the Greek word, anastasis, which refers to a raising......

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