Answers to Question 1.
1. Give scriptures, proving that Christ's body was actually raised from the dead.
(a) "But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept." 1 Cor. 15:20.
(b) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 1 Peter 1:3.
Answers to Question 2.
2. Give scriptures in regard to those who saw Him after the resurrection, and recognized Him as having the same body He had before, even to the wound-prints.
(a) "And He said unto them (the disciples),.... Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have." Luke 24:38, 39.
(b)" Then saith He to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and behold My hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless but believing." John 20:27.
Answers to Question 3.
3. Give five Scripture proofs that the Lord is risen:
(a) The empty tomb.
(b) The Lord's day.
(c) The Church.
(d) The New Testament.
(e) Five hundred and fourteen witnesses are recorded as having seen the Lord.
(a) "He is not here: for He is risen, as He said, Come, see the place where the Lord lay." Matt. 28:6.
(b) " Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week...." Mark 16:9.
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Rev. 1:10.
(c) "And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us ward who believe which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead,.... and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all." Eph. 1:19-23.
(d) "And for this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." Heb. 9:15.
"After that He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once." 1 Cor. 15:6.
"After that He appeared in another form unto two of them as they walked, and went into the country." Mark 16:12.
"Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat." Mark 16:14.
"Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Mark 16:9.
Answers to Question 4.
4. When and where must we give an account of our lives?
(a) "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God." 1 Cor. 4:5.
(b)"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in the body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." 2 Cor. 5:10.
Answers to Question 5.
5. Give five scriptures which tell us that the Lord will come again for His own.
John 14:3; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17; 1 Cor. 15:51-57; Phil. 3:20, 21; Titus 2:13,14.