Easter Sunday would have been a regular Sunday without the Resurrection of Christ but it is precisely the Resurrection of Christ that confirms Jesus as the Son of God. The Resurrection is, in my opinion, the last of three events that showed Jesus to exist both in the flesh and bones of man and in the realm of God. [1] The first was Jesus' birth. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary so even when He was a fetus, Jesus was part God and part man, and on the cross where He died, He had let out blood and water when His side was pierced by a sword. [2] Between His birth and His death, Jesus' entire human body was transformed during the Transfiguration. It was a momentary departure from the human form where Jesus assumed a divine appearance on earth before a few of his disciples. Whether the transfigured Jesus had both characteristics of human and God simultaneously is uncertain even though I have included in my count that The Transfiguration is the third time Jesus existed both in the flesh and bones of man and in the divine realm.
[1] I have omitted to include the opening of the heavens after the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and all the miracles (even one as amazing as the raising of Lazarus from his death) as events that showed Jesus was both man and the Son of God because in none of these events was there a direct nexus between the composition of Jesus' physical body and Jesus' divinity.
[2] I could have counted the flow of blood and water from Jesus' pierced side as a separate event with a direct nexus between the body of Christ and His divinity but I did not because I consider this union between man and God to be part of Jesus' body from birth.
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