Christian apologists say that this passage looks like a creed developed just a few years after Jesus’s death.
Possible, but by the same logic, it could’ve been added to copies of Paul’s letter decades later. And if this is a creed, it’s just a faith statement and not an argument. Even if this suggests belief in the resurrection was early, it doesn’t argue that it was a historical event.
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