[The atoning sacrifice of Christ] is the wondrous and true story of Christmas. The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem of Judea is preface. The three-year ministry of the Master is prologue. The magnificent substance of the story is His sacrifice, the totally selfless act of dying in pain on the cross of Calvary to atone for the sins of all of us.
The epilogue is the miracle of the Resurrection, bringing the assurance that “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:22).
There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Chris of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection. (Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Gordon B. Hinckley, p. 330, square brackets added for clarification, emphasis added)
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