““The resurrection is a kind of surrealist moment in the Gospels, one in which Jesus appears to step out of the reality in which he has been living, a “stepping out” that reveals that reality to be just one more scriptural illusion founded upon violence. In light of the resurrection, all social structure, the entire scapegoating machinery, is revealed as delusional, a delusional quality we are not permitted to see fully unless we observe the victim “after death” so to speak.””
![“[Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It is therefore an event of dialectical promise: it opens up a qualitatively new future, which negates all the negatives of present experience. It opens…” quote by Richard Bauckham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc1/richard-bauckham-18561_hope_jesus-resurrection-is-therefore-god-s-pr_566748.jpg)
