Let me emphasize one thing just in case it is not clear enough already, and just in case what I will say is not clear enough. You remember I said that how you feel about the resurrection of Christ is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that it actually happened! And when I say it actually happened, what I mean is that it actually happened in time and space. What I mean is the kind of resurrection that leaves an empty tomb in its wake.
This is what is clearly implied by Luke’s famous account of the discovery of the resurrection by the women who followed Jesus. Look at Luke 24:1-6:
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; 5 and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 “He is not here, but He has risen.
The resurrection of Christ is not a myth, a legend, or a wonderful idea that has some profound meaning but happened outside of this material world in some ideal world in eternity. I am not referring to some philosophical or religious idea that did not actually happen here in our physical world. I mean an empty tomb kind of resurrection where the dead body is gone because it is physically alive again. I am saying that Christ is alive in the glory of the resurrection of the flesh. That is what I mean by the resurrection of Christ.
If you do not believe in such a resurrection, you do not believe in “the resurrection of Christ” as the Bible means to affirm it.
