Why is the resurrection so important to christian faith

Question: Why is the resurrection so important to Christian faith?

Even now, 2000 years after his death Jesus Christ is followed and looked up to. But perhaps more important than what he said was what he did. His actions were amazing, superhuman even, but eventually led to his crucifixion. It was after his death that Jesus performed his most amazing deed. He was put in his tomb on Friday, on Sunday three female friends went to embalm him... and found him gone. Outside of the tomb the women met a 'gardener' who was in fact Christ, raised from death

"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter... you will see him, just as he told you.' "Mark 16; 6, 7

Jesus then appeared to his disciples three times, importantly, each time they had not recognised him by sight, rather by his allowing them to see him as they knew him:

" Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus...

Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Ch...

The Resurrection of Christ (Kinnaird Resurrection)

English: Resurrection of Christ

None of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord." John 21: 4-13

He then appeared to Paul, once a non-believer, and they talked, Paul was told to spread the gospels and, in his letters to the Christians in: Rome; Corinth; Ephes; Galatia and so on that is what he did. Paul also travelled to many countries to pass on Jesus' message.

In total Jesus made appearances for up to forty days, in this time he was able to accomplish both human acts, like eating, and non-human acts, like walking through walls. Jesus was...