Concerning his son, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead.
Romans 1:3-4
It really does all come down to the resurrection. If Jesus isn't resurrected then none of this matters. If he was, everything does. The only hope of purpose comes from the resurrection; the only hope for peace; the only hope of power; the only hope of meaning; the only hope of forgiveness; the only hope of consolation. All of it rests upon what happened in that tomb. As wise and as revolutionary as Jesus' teaching was, it would have all been empty had the tomb remained occupied. There is no 'Judeo-Christian' ethic without the resurrection. There is no hope for the world without it. It is the crux of human history, the turning point of eternity.
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