“If our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.” (I Corinthians 15:19-20 NLT)
Christianity did not begin with a group of people trying to remember and follow Jesus' teaching even though He was dead. It began with the belief that God had vindicated Jesus as the Messiah by raising Him from the dead. This is why one would be completely mistaken to think that Jesus was a good teacher whose followers eventually developed a myth about His being the Son of God. There would be no Christian movement today if His original followers had not been convinced that He had really risen from the dead.
-- Mark Mittelberg in “The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask”
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