Evidence item ยท v0.74
Early Resurrection Creed (1 Cor 15:3-7)
EV-ERC-1COR15
Visual overview: Early Resurrection Creed visual overview
Classification
- Evidence ID
- EV-ERC-1COR15
- Corpus/version
- v0.74
- Stage
- stage5
- Category
- Early Christology / Worship
- Major category
- History
- Sub-category
- Creed / Hymn / Tradition
- BF status
- ready
- Scoring label
- Scored row with active Bayes factors
Navigation
Primary Datum
Datum: An early creed embedded in 1 Corinthians 15:3-7 summarizes Jesus' death, burial, resurrection, and appearances.
Scoring / Hypothesis Pressure
| Hypothesis | log10BF | Min | Max | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
H-ALT-CONSPIRACY | -0.3 | -0.5 | -0.1 | Coordinated fabrication unlikely to sustain early, public formula with named witnesses. |
H-ALT-HALLUCINATION | -0.25 | -0.4 | -0.1 | Private experiences don't predict cross-regional creed with named witnesses. |
H-ALT-LEGEND | -0.4 | -0.6 | -0.2 | Slow accretion poorly fits an early fixed formula. |
H-ALT-SWOON | -0.25 | -0.4 | -0.1 | Doesn't explain appearances and worship of the risen Lord. |
H-CHRIST-IDENTITY | 0.25 | 0.1 | 0.4 | Identity and lordship claims follow from resurrection proclamation. |
H-DEISM | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0 | Non-intervening deity ill-fits a revelation-anchored creed. |
H-GOD | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | Perceived divine action modestly favored by an early proclamation of resurrection. |
H-IDEALISM | 0 | -0.1 | 0.1 | Neutral. |
H-NATURALISM | -0.05 | -0.2 | 0.1 | Explains mnemonic form, not resurrection-centered content and timing. |
H-RESURRECTION | 0.55 | 0.3 | 0.8 | Early creedal form and named witnesses fit strong, shared resurrection conviction. |
Dependency / Cap Metadata
- dependency_cluster_id
- pauline_high_christology
- dependency_cluster_role
- primary_anchor
- dependency_cluster
- resurrection_witness_structure
- dependency_role
- anchor
- cap_profile
- moderate_semi_independent
- evidence_function
- direct_event
- directness
- direct
Counter-Pressure
- title
- Early Resurrection Creed (1 Cor 15:3-7) is a bounded signal, not a standalone proof.
- text
- The strongest caution is overuse. No one Pauline row proves the full doctrine of the Trinity by itself. This row should be read inside its dependency family, not treated as an isolated demonstration of God, Christ, or the final synthesis.
- path
- Start with what the row actually shows, then name what it does not show. Use it with Shema, YHWH-text, devotion, and Resurrection rows to ask how early Christ-centered identity emerged.
Apologetic Note
- label
- Apologetic leverage
- title
- The creed asks what could make devout Jews reorganize worship around a crucified Messiah.
- key point
- 1 Corinthians 15 is early, compact, and Jewish. It is not a loose spiritual rumor from random seekers; it is a handed-on proclamation that death, burial, resurrection, and appearances belonged to the message from the beginning. The force is the social and theological cost: devout Jews, including Paul the former persecutor and James in Jerusalem, came to treat Jesus' resurrection as the decisive act of Israel's God.
- conversation move
- Put the conversion burden in ordinary terms. Ask what would make people with a thick inherited faith, Scripture, worship, purity boundaries, and communal costs publicly re-center allegiance on the crucified Jesus. People can change religions, but this kind of reversal needs a cause large enough to explain the creed, the witnesses, the mission, and the worship.
- caveat
- Do not say the creed alone proves the Resurrection. Say it sharply limits lazy late-legend accounts and forces rival theories to explain early public proclamation among highly religious Jews, alongside Paul, James, Jerusalem, costly witness, and the wider resurrection field.
Scripture Passage
label: Early creed summary; reference: 1 Corinthians 15:3-7
Caveats / Notes
- Source note
- Canonical early creed citations are restricted to primary Pauline text, adjacent Pauline witness context, and directly relevant early-resurrection / early-Christology scholarship. Background and analogy sources must not be treated as direct support.
- Cap notes
- This row belongs to the Christ Identity / early high Christology family. It supports Christ-specific evidence and should be assessed with related early devotion and witness rows.
- Cap profile note
- Semi-independent convergence rows are capped, but not treated as exact duplicates.
- Cluster note
- Canonical primary early creed anchor. Direct H-RESURRECTION scoring should be concentrated here and in clearly event-level rows; duplicate creed rows remain unscored.
- Scoring note
- Canonical primary early creed anchor. Direct H-RESURRECTION scoring should be concentrated here and in clearly event-level rows; duplicate creed rows remain unscored.
- Governance note
- Canonical creed anchor; duplicate creed rows remain unscored/context.
Citations
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-7 - source_role: primary_text - claim_supported: Primary Pauline text containing the received tradition of Jesus' death, burial, resurrection, and appearances. - source_posture: primary - notes: Primary text for the datum; not a secondary scholarly source.
- Pauline and Acts context for Paul, Cephas, James, and apostolic contact - source_role: primary_text - claim_supported: Adjacent primary-text context for Paul, Cephas, James, and the early Jerusalem witness network. - source_posture: primary - notes: Contextual primary texts; use as adjacent witness context, not as a separate scored creed row.
- The First Epistle to the Corinthians - author: Gordon D. Fee - publisher_or_journal: Eerdmans - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Commentary support for reading 1 Corinthians 15:3-7 as received Pauline tradition. - source_posture: christian_academic
- The Resurrection of the Son of God - author: N. T. Wright - year: 2003 - publisher_or_journal: Fortress Press - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Historical and Second Temple context for early resurrection proclamation and its Jewish setting. - source_posture: christian_academic
- Jesus Remembered - author: James D. G. Dunn - year: 2003 - publisher_or_journal: Eerdmans - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Historical-Jesus and memory/tradition context for early Christian transmission. - source_posture: mainstream_academic
- The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History - author: Dale C. Allison Jr. - year: 2021 - publisher_or_journal: Bloomsbury T&T Clark - source_role: critical_pressure - claim_supported: Critical and cautionary resurrection-history pressure, including limits on apologetic overstatement. - source_posture: mainstream_academic
- Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity - author: Larry W. Hurtado - year: 2003 - publisher_or_journal: Eerdmans - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Early devotion and Christology context surrounding the resurrection proclamation. - source_posture: christian_academic
- The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach - author: Michael R. Licona - year: 2010 - publisher_or_journal: IVP Academic - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Historiographical support for evaluating resurrection claims and early tradition. - source_posture: christian_academic
- Work on the early creed tradition in 1 Corinthians 15 - author: Gary R. Habermas - source_role: direct_support - claim_supported: Specialized apologetic scholarship on the early creed tradition. - source_posture: apologetic - notes: Useful for early-creed discussion, but should be weighed alongside broader academic and critical sources.
- Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - author: Richard Bauckham - year: 2006 - publisher_or_journal: Eerdmans - source_role: background_context - claim_supported: Eyewitness and testimony context relevant to named-witness traditions. - source_posture: christian_academic - notes: Background context for testimony and named witnesses; not a direct source for every detail of the creed row.
Recommended Citation
The Signal Evidence Dataset, "Early Resurrection Creed (1 Cor 15:3-7)," Evidence ID: EV-ERC-1COR15, Version 0.74. Accessed [access date]. https://logos-signal.org/evidence/EV-ERC-1COR15/
Machine-Readable Source
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