Next to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, His resurrection is the most important event in human history. Indeed it may be said that three facts concerning Jesus Christ are so intimately related as to be of equal importance—His incarnation, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Without the incarnation neither the crucifixion nor the resurrection would have been possible; without the crucifixion the incarnation would have been of no avail for the salvation of a guilty world; without the resurrection the fact of the incarnation, and the efficacy of the crucifixion would have lacked the attestation to which Jesus Himself appealed as the final "sign"

—C.I.S.