They purchased him and placed him in the cage and closed it up to await the coming of the woman. "We can go out and find another dog to replace this one and she will never know the difference." With this plan, the men scoured every pet store in the city until the found a dog that looked exactly like the one that had died. This through them into something of a panic until one of them had an idea. When the movers had arrived at the new city, they opened the cage and found that the dog was dead. She placed her dog into a cage, had it crated, and instructed the movers to transport it to her new home. She had already packed her furniture and she had only her dog left, a brown cocker spaniel. There once was a woman who was planing to move to another city. Because we believe that, we believe a lot of other things.īecause he rose, we know that He was really who He said He was.īecause he rose, we believe that our sins are forgiven.īecause he rose, we have a reason for living.īecause he rose, we know that we are going to grow when they plant us in the ground. We believe that a man died and was placed into the ground and that He rose again from the dead. Stevenson - The resurrection is both hard to believe and yet is the central truth of Christianity. At the outset he treated of a subject which had been reported to him (1 Cor 1:11), and he closes with one which again was suggested by what he had heard (1 Cor 15:12),-that there were certain people at Corinth who denied the doctrine of the Resurrection. Who these persons were we do not know. Thus the letter begins and ends in a similar way. Robertson and Plummer - Having treated of various social, moral, ecclesiastical, and liturgical questions, the Apostle now takes up a doctrinal one, which he has kept to the last because of its vital importance. Calvin suggests that St Paul did not wish to treat of so momentous a subject until, by the rebukes and exhortations of the previous chapters, he had brought the Corinthians to a proper state of mind. There is here no trace of a question asked by the Corinthians: this subject St Paul starts himself, in consequence of information which has reached him.