IF YOU BELIEVE THAT CHRIST DIED, YOU BELIEVE IN HIS RESURRECTION   The Christian life is meaningless unless you believe in the reason for Jesus dying on the Cross. We hear people say “Christ is my Savior,” “Christ died for us,” etc. But the question is, do we really believe it? Do we understand what this means? St. Paul became a great Apostle, although he did not believe in Jesus at first, when he had his encounter with Him at which point his life was completely transformed. And from then on, St. Paul spread the Faith among the gentiles, people other than the Jews. St. Paul was a great teacher of the Jewish law, but when he understood why Jesus died and Resurrected, he made the decision to give his own life for the Love of Jesus. In the first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul reveals something extremely powerful. For in this passage, we find the treasure that contains the Truth of the Word, “for I handed on to you what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that He was buried and He raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3-4). Here, St. Paul describes the importance of what the Holy Scriptures proclaim. Even in the early days of the Christian communities, some doubted the Resurrection; So, St. Paul encouraged them in a totally clear way, ”now if we claim that Jesus is raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no Resurrection of the dead? If there is no Resurrection of the dead, then Christ did not raise; and if Christ did not raise, our proclamation is empty and your Faith is also empty. We are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your Faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. Now, Christ has risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the Resurrection of the dead comes also through a Man. (1 Cor 15: 12-21) From the above text, we see that some did not believe in the Resurrection of the dead and without the Resurrection, our Faith is in vain. For me, these words confirmed the reason why Jesus came into the world and performed His mission. Jesus agreed to Sacrifice His life out of Love for sinners, so that they might be Forgiven through His shed Blood; in the Old Testament, animal sacrifices were offered to ask God…