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the view that the resurrection was an event that actually hap pened to Jesus as a person, something that happened to Him after death and which does not concern us.” He talks about the resurrection, but he holds that "the Lord rose into proclamation — so the risen Lord is present in the proclamation of the Gospel and identical with it.” However, he holds that the physical resur rection of our Lord was not actually a fact, but merely a myth, and he thinks, "the appearances of Christ to His disciples after His resurrection were in the nature of visions.” It is strange, indeed, the extent to which men will go in their efforts to discredit the plain statements found in the Word of God. Instead of being thoroughly honest and simply saying they do not believe the Word of God and then proceeding to build their own system of theology, they take the well-known Scrip tural terms and apply to them a meaning entirely foreign to the evident intent of the Scriptural statements themselves. O f course, these unbelievers realize that if they were honest and repudiated the Word of God altogether, they would not be able to get any thing like the hearing that they now so thoroughly enjoy. It would be ludicrous if the results were not so tragic that men like this who live more than 1900 years after the events took place as recorded in the Scripture find it so easy to discredit the eye-wit nesses and those who were present during the recorded events themselves, making them out to be liars while at the same time asking people to believe the modern heretics. W e dare to declare that the Apostle Paul had as great a mind and was as profound a scholar and thinker as any of these modern, unbelieving intellectuals. How refreshing it is to read First Corin thians 15:1-20, where Paul simply states pointedly, emphatically and unequivocally: "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures; And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto this present. . . . And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God . . . ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead.” Yes, He actually arose from the dead with the self-same body, in a glorified condition, which was laid away in the tomb. And, "because He lives, we too shall live.” Thank God, when we stand beside the graveside of a loved one who has died in the Lord, we do not have to depend upon a dessicated theological treatise such as that presented by Rudolph Bultmann. Instead, we are able to claim and proclaim with abso- (continued on page 39 )
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