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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1554899" data-attributes="member: 12706">It might help if you knew the (apocryphal) story of the PURPOSE for the death and resurrection. I mean, everyone always says, "He died for your sins," but you never really hear anybody talk about the mechanics of HOW His death saved anyone's soul.There is a story that says that while Lucifer lost the war in Heaven and was exiled, he won one last victory of sorts - right before he betrayed G-d, he had secreted away the Key of Souls, also known as the Faerie Key (for reasons never made clear to me), and in exile, while working to spoil Man's relationship with G-d, he was also working on ways of using the Key to disrupt the connection between Man and G-d, and to divert the souls of people who died, particularly those with sin. This situation had, for one reason or another, become more urgent when Jesus was sent and given His mission - He had to live as a mortal and die with sin on Himself (thus the treatment of the moneychangers at the Temple), so that He could go to Hell to retrieve the Key. He did, and returned on the third day to let Man know that things would be better now, and then ascended on to return to His Divinity.The Resurrection wasn't the important thing - it was what He was doing while He was gone.P.S. to all - I'm not ascerting any of the above as TRUE, but I have read it in a source recognized by some (few) as authentic, and more importantly, I thought it might help for the purposes of the question about the importance of the Resurrection in a world where that's somewhat common.</blockquote>

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