In Matthew, it is clear that Joseph buried Jesus (28:59-60). That is not called part of the Gospel of Christ. In Mark, the same is true (15:43-44). In Luke 23:51-52, the same is true. In John 19:40-42, the same is true. None of the four Gospels present the burial and witnesses as part of the Gospel of Christ. Yet the burial was necessary to prove that Christ was dead, and the burial was necessary because you can't rise from the dead if you are not dead!
Again, there is not a single time in the book of Acts where the burial of Christ is part of the Gospel presentation. Therefore, according to your logic, no one got saved in the book of Acts!!
Wrong. I have already shown you that Paul in fact did present the burial of Christ in his gospel preaching that is recorded in Acts 13.
Acts 13:26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is
the word of this salvation sent. [
Paul plainly told them that what he was preaching to them was the word of salvation!]
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. 28 And
though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him,
they took him down from the tree, and
laid him in a sepulchre. [
This is explicit testimony to the burial of Christ!]
30
But God raised him from the dead:
31
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. [
This is explicit testimony to the appearances of Christ to His witnesses.]
32 And
we declare unto you glad tidings [εὐαγγελιζόμεθα; Gk. preach the gospel], how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to
corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to
see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw
corruption: 37 But he, whom God raised again,
saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you
the forgiveness of sins: 39 And
by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Paul explicitly included testimony to the death (13:28-29
a-b), burial (13:29
c; implicit in 34-37 [repeated mention of "corruption," which takes place if someone is buried but not if they are cremated), resurrection (13:30; 33-37), and appearances of Christ (13:31) when he preached the gospel in Antioch of Pisida.
Furthermore, the divinely inspired unit is the entire book in each of the Gospels. The Spirit inspired every writer of the 4 Gospels to include explicit testimony to the death,
burial, resurrection, and
appearances of Christ. Each Gospel writer thus teaches that all 4 are part of the gospel message. John even says that what he has written in his book is written so that people might believe and have eternal life through that belief (John 20:31).
Acts 13:26-39, 1 Cor. 15:1-11, and all 4 Gospels
categorically refute your position that the burial and the appearances of Christ are not part of the content of the gospel message. Six different inspired books of Scripture refute what you say.
