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Easter. Time for hiding candy eggs in the yard for the kids. A special reason to dress up and attend church. Dinner with the extended family. Though over half of adults consider Easter a religious holiday, a recent poll showed that relatively few of them think of it as the most important one. That?s sur­prising because Easter celebrates the one thing that separates Christianity from all other religions?the fact that Jesus Christ, who died on a cross, physically came back to life within three days! Jesus claimed that he was the Son of God who had come to earth for the purpose of substituting himself for sinners in order to take the punishment for their sins. He even fulfilled his promise to physically rise from the grave (recorded in the Bible, John 2:19-22), proving that he was God?s Son. Since Jesus willingly died for you, wouldn?t you like to know how you can benefit by this ultimate sacrifice? The reason for Easter:OUR SEPARATION FROM GODGod did not create us like robots that automatically love and mechanically obey him. The first man and woman chose to disobey God and go their own willful way, causing a spiritual separation from him. Not only have we inherited their bent to sin, we have added our personal disobedience which all results in our own