“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
'Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead? - Paul's rhetorical question cuts to the heart of the conflict: resurrection is not alien to Jewish belief. The God who created life and made promises to the ancestors must have the power to raise the dead (egeirō tous nekrous, egeirō tous nekrous). He appeals to a central Jewish doctrine (belief in resurrection), making the Christian claim (Jesus's resurrection) a natural extension of what any loyal Jew should accept.
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