According to the Apostle Paul, two facts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ are 1) His death for our sins and 2) His bodily resurrection from the dead.
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter,b and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.” (1 Cor 15:3-8)
If we claim to be Christians and have ‘accepted’ Jesus Christ for some other reason than His death for our sins, and in our place, we have reason to question our very salvation. This is the first point of the precious Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Paul further asserts in the same chapter in 1 Corinthians that if Christ’s bodily resurrection from the dead is not true, our very faith, individually and corporately, is a sham.
“If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him 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 also 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.(1 Cor 15:13-19).
Some would tell you, that by all the tests of the actual historicity of any event in human history, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ stands far above anything else accepted both popularly and scientifically, as historical fact.
Food for thought…..
The Battle Cry 
First of all, the authority on the resurrection lies in the development of a trend in the books of Moses, the Psalms, the writings of the prophets and the teaching of Jesus without which we are liable to misunderstand Paul’s testimonies.
In short, the “bodily resurrection of Jesus” is a common garden variety in direct opposition to its greater counterpart, viz.: the self-revelation of God in the perfect and transfigurative death of Jesus Christ on the cross according to the Scriptures open to all bona fide disciples.
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