re: Why do American Christians support Israel?

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What if they were right and the messiah hasn't arrived yet?

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If Christ wasn't the messiah and son of God, then He was a liar and we are still in our sins.

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I mean Jesus was not the first historical figure to die and be resurrected 3 days later. Gilgamesh pulled that move too, thousands of years before JC

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The resurrection of Jesus is important for several reasons:

It testifies to the existence and power of God; it testifies to Christ being the messiah as prophesied by the Old Testament; it testifies to the divinity of Jesus; it testifies to the resurrection that we will eventually experience; it testifies to the promise of eternal life that we will have through faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, who defeated death and will one day exterminate it entirely; and it testifies to the hope that we can rightfully have that we share in Christ's victory over death and eternal life so that we don't need to fear anything in this life.

The resurrection of Jesus is also very different from the myths and stories of old that include resurrections. The resurrection of Jesus is critical to the Christian belief system whereas the other accounts are mentioned almost in passing to explain certain natural phenomena like the rebirth of nature in spring.

The resurrection stories of other cultures were written as poetry, thousands of years after the events supposedly took place, while the account of Jesus' resurrection was written as historical fact, within a generation of it taking place. There were no eyewitness accounts of the resurrections of those found in other mythologies while the resurrection of Christ was testified by eyewitnesses, including many who died for their faith in that resurrection.

Finally, the lives of Jesus' disciples were changed by the resurrection. They went from being scattered and terrified to boldly proclaiming Christ's crucifixion and resurrection and willing to die for it. Nothing so life-changing occurred from the poetic portrayals of the resurrection mythologies. So no, they are not comparable, in either the style of their accounts, nor the impact on the lives of others.