Having given the eye-witness testimony of the resurrection of Jesus, Paul now addresses this accusation that there is no resurrection. If all these eye-witnesses have said that Jesus was raised from the dead, how can some say there is no resurrection? Because if there is no resurrection from the dead, then Christ could not be risen. And if Christ is not risen then all preaching is empty and without meaning and so is our faith. Paul would be a liar who had misrepresented God because he preached that God had raised up Christ when He couldn’t have if there is no resurrection of the dead. The bottom line is that if Christ has not been raised, then our faith is pointless because we are still in our sins. Christ’s virgin birth, all the prophecies fulfilled, many miracles, and His cruel death on the cross is meaningless without the resurrection. It is the resurrection that proves that He conquered death and that His death paid for our sins. If there is no resurrection, then all those believers who have died are just dead. If we only live with the hope of Christ for this life and not eternity, then we of all people should be most pitied. This is the argument made by many an atheist, that Christianity is just a crutch for those who can’t get by in life. If Christ was not raised, then they are right and Christianity is no better than any other coping mechanism we might use to get through life. But Christ is risen and all who die will be raised. We need more than a crutch because we can’t fix our sin problem on our own, we need an empty cross.