What did Resurrection mean but victory over death and therefore victory over sin and therefore the evidence of a new power at work in the world and therefore the opening of the gates of a new life?

Edwin Lewis

Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.  Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.  And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”  But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away—for it was very large.  And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.  But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed.  You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.  He is risen!  He is not here.  See the place where they laid Him.  But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.”  So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and were amazed.  And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Mark 16:1-8
The New King James Version

The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test.  It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing.  It cannot be tested for truth; it is the test of lesser truths.  No light can be thrown on it; its own light blinds the investigator.  It does not compel belief; it resists it.  But once accepted as fact, it tells more about the universe, about history, and about man’s state and fate than all the mountains of other facts in the human accumulation.

Editorial in Life Magazine, 1956

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