This may seem strange to place this in the eschatology forum, but I've noticed that it seems to be commonly lost that Jesus's death and resurrection was extremely key to what we believe about eschatology. N. T. Wright explains that importance here, in this video:
It is Jesus who put the emphasis on the resurrection. It was His defining miracle, the murder of an innocent man, raised by the Father to walk in heaven with Him.
The emphasis is conquering death which would be meaningless if Jesus had stayed dead.
What is significant was Jesus did not raise Himself from the grave, as he did Lazarus, so the event defined Gods involvement in the cross and death, as well as Jesus's ministry.
Some look to Jesus's morality as the gift to the world, so they might live well.
Jesus brought alive morality but morality of various sorts has always existed, it is innate within society as social creatures have to interact in a consistent way with trust for business to successfully be transacted.
It may strike one as odd, that some want Jesus the moral teacher and not Jesus the son of God, the Lord of creation and source of life. If one acknowledges one why not the other? Because there is a divide between the Kingdom of God and the world, and only the elect step over this, from death to life.
You will only get the argument for the light from people of the light, which is a typical example of a biased argument, on both sides. Only when we actually meet the Lord will this finally be put to rest.
God bless you
