Core tenet of Christianity
The resurrection defeated death.
The tomb was empty — the claim on which Paul stakes the entire faith.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Paul calls the resurrection load-bearing: if it did not happen, the whole structure falls. It is claimed not as resuscitation — a corpse revived to die again — but as death itself run through and exited, the first instance of what is promised to everyone.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is empty and your faith is empty.
1 Corinthians 15:14
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The dead will rise.
Judaism
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The grave is not empty waiting.
Islam
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The end is renovation.
Zoroastrianism
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The twenty-one on the beach.
The Coptic Orthodox Church · story
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Our Lady of Deliverance, 31 October 2010.
The Syriac Catholic Church · story
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The Second Coming already happened, and the church has been living in it since.
The Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing)
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