I would say that you can keep your money as the question is unanswerable.
Christ died for the payment of sins; without which the entire teaching of Christianity is pointless. Note that it was with the death that the payment of sins was completed, not with the resurrection. Christ also noted that the point of His life was to suffer and die (not to be raised again).
However, the resurrection 'validates' Christ's claims of being God incarnate, the forgiveness of sins and whatever other teachings he proclaimed (e.g. that He would later return to judge the living and the dead. (Since no one had conquered death before or since--not even Houdini (without getting into an argument about ancient stories of other resurrections.)) The resurrection of Christ also spells hope for a later resurrection of Christians (and a consequent resurrection life), without which there seems little point of forgiveness of sins.
An aside: Aren't many of the important issues in life circular in reasoning? Even the meaning of words suffers from it.
--Mike
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