1. Turn first, please, to II Tim. 2:8, +"Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel."+ Here Paul explicitly declares that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead according to the gospel which he preached. Now what was raised? Certainly not His soul. That did not die. Turning to Acts 2:27-31, we find that the soul of the Lord Jesus went into Hades, the abode of the dead. These are Peter's words, spoken on the day of Pentecost, there recorded, +"Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, neither wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption+ (i.e., in His body). +Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance. Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses."+ Peter here declares that the soul of Jesus went to Hades and that it was "His flesh," i.e., His body, that was kept from corruption and afterwards raised. Turning now to I Cor. 15:3, 4, we read these words of Paul: +"For we delivered unto you first of all that which also I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures."+ Paul here declares that Jesus Christ died and was buried and was raised. What was raised? Paul says, that _that which "was buried"_ was raised. But what was buried? _Not the soul_ of the Lord Jesus, _but His body_. Peter makes this even plainer, if possible, in I Pet. 3:18-20: +"Because Christ also suffered for our sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit; in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison; which aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah."+ These words clearly mean that it was the body of Jesus that was put to death, but that the spirit still lived and went into Hades; so it was _the body_ that was raised and to which the spirit that had not died or become unconscious came back. I Cor. 15:12-19 removes all possibility of doubt on this point on the part of any man who goes to the Bible to find out what it actually teaches and not merely to see how he can twist and distort it to fit it into his own preconceived opinions. Paul's Spirit-given words here read, +"Now if Christ be preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?+ (Mark, not _no immortality of