Evidence for the Resurrection; 1 Cor. 15:3-4

Verses 3 & 4 do not give us the content of the gospel; this is not a definition of the gospel, through there are many people who take it that way. This is the foundation of the gospel.

1 Corinthians 15:3 ^NASB “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.” There are two elements here stylistically set apart by that phrase “according to the Scriptures.” There are two elements that Paul taught as the foundation of the Christian life. First, he died for our sins. This is the essence of the gospel. The phrase there utilizes the Greek preposition huper [u(per] plus the genitive, which means to die in place of someone, it is the idea of substitutionary atonement. This is important because when we use the English preposition “for” it can have various shades of meaning. So it is preferable to translate it that “Christ died as a substitute for our sins.”