In the reading, I noticed that the church emphasizes that Jesus’s resurrection was not “a return to earthly life”. Earthly life is defined by ending in death. Even the people that Jesus raised from the dead returned to earthly life and would eventually die again. Jesus’s resurrection was different because after he was resurrected he “passed from the state of death to another life beyond time and space”.
The church considers the resurrection to be the work of the trinity because when the Father brought Jesus back from the dead, he introduced Jesus’s humanity into the trinity. I thought it was interesting that Jesus wasn’t considered to be a part of the trinity while he was alive because he was still God’s son at that time.
Christ’s resurrection serves as a guarantee that all the faithful will also be resurrected. I thought it was interesting how Jesus was considered to be “the first born of the dead”. I found this phrasing a little bit confusing because people died before Jesus. I think it could refer to the special privileges and respect that the first born child usually gets in a family, but I’m not exactly sure what specific privileges these could be in this context.
Anna Janzen 
I agree with you about the emphasis on Jesus’ resurrection being different than an earthly life, but I think it was interesting how the event was backed up as a real historical event with evidence. I think that Jesus was considered ‘first born of the dead’ because of his resurrection being different and transcendent compared to that of the other resurrections that he himself performed.
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