I concur with the glaring obvious truthfulness presented by God through faith in Jesus Christ, of His Plan for all of us,..but quite truthfully, His Resurrection is merely secondary evidence of His stature. He has already presented more than overwhelming evidence of His being the Messiah for those who merely accept what He provides us through grace,
Paul was saying that the resurrection of the dead was proof of God’s power, indeed of his existence. Otherwise Christianity is nothing but another dead religion. Christ was without sin, thus he had not incurred the wages of sin which was death. Christ was the love letter sent by God, his very imprimatur stamped into matter...the resurrection was God’s exclamation point and a sign of our future hope of such a same resurrection. No other religion makes such a promise in the way Christianity does; which is why there is such angry vehemence directed against it. Salvation simply by grace, by confession that Jesus is Lord and a belief that God has raised him from the dead? “Such offensive comments” cry the scoffers and critics!
No, my friend, Paul’s statement underscores the very importance of the resurrection to Christianity for if we have men coming back to life by the power of God, then we have indeed found the well springs of Life eternal. It proves Christ’s divinity, humanity, and his sinlessness.
Still, scientifically speaking, the concept of the resurrection would be considered at best a tautology, a question only answered within the heart and faith of the individual who considers Christ.
Paul posits the resurrection as a “if, then statement”. If Christ had not risen from the dead, then we might as well just live like the murdering, rutting animals we are by our very nature. There is no other hope but Christ, but our hope in Christ is in vain had he just been an enlightened rabble rouser killed by the Romans, whose body simply rotted in the ground like all the rest of us!