God - who is said to be able to do anything - is apparently incapable of demonstrating "he" is good without the need to contrast it with evil. Often, that contrast involved God engaging in acts of evil to defeat evil, such as when God treats Sodom and Gomorrah like Hiroshima and Nagasaki or redirects acts of evil away from the devil who deserves it onto his innocent son, who doesn't.
Evil, as such, is just as essential to God as the good. So in the same way darkness can only be understood to have meaning when it is seen in contrast with light, so salvation is meaningless unless is it contrasted with a God who will torment you forever, like Jack the Ripper who never dies, torturing a victim who Jack the Ripper can keep alive as long as he wants, so his victim can continue to feel the pain Jack enjoys inflicting on them for his own amusement. Clearly, since torturing people for all eternity can add nothing to a "perfect" being like God, and certainly has nothing to do with teaching the victims anything of eternal value to them or God or anyone else, the torture is merely for God's unnecessary amusement.
If evil can be accepted as just a mystery that is all part of "God's plan," then Adolf Hitler and Jack the Ripper are just as much of that plan, and are therefore just as important to fulfilling such a plan, as torturing Jesus Christ to death and leaving the devil untouched and unhindered.
The resurrection is essentially meaningless without, and certainly wholly dependent upon, the willingness of someone to murder the innocent. Hence, we are "saved" at least as much by those screaming "crucify him" as the one those true believers in the infallibility of their own brand of religion wanted to crucify for daring to suggest they should notice the difference between what they call their religion and what they call "God."
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