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In verse twelve, Paul basically talks to the Greeks that if Christ was raised from the dead, then how can you not believe in the resurrection from the dead. This is due to the Greeks’ beliefs. Most Greeks did not believe that people’s bodies would be resurrected after death. They saw the afterlife as something that happened only to the soul.

According to Greek philosophers, the soul was the real person, imprisoned in a physical body, and at death the soul was released. There was no immortality for the body, but the soul entered an eternal state.

Christianity, by contrast, affirms that the body and soul will be united after resurrection.

The church in Corinth revolved entirely around Greek culture. Thus many believers had a difficult time believing in a bodily resurrection. Paul wrote this chapter in order clarify this cultural confusion of the resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:12
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?