A Roman emperor once asked Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah a question designed to be unanswerable: do the dead truly return to life? "They have become dust," the emperor said. "How can dust live again?"
The Rabbi hesitated — but the emperor's own daughter was in the room, and she answered for him. "Father," she said, "there are two craftsmen in our city. One makes vessels out of water and the other makes them out of earth. Which of them is more skilled?" The emperor answered without thinking: "The one who makes vessels out of water — water has no shape, and yet he gives it one."
"Well then," she replied, "God created the first human being out of water (Genesis 2:6-7) — if He can shape living flesh out of something that has no form, how much easier must it be for Him to revive flesh that has already been given form, and is now only dust?"
The midrash preserved in Gaster's Exempla of the Rabbis (1924, No. 11) uses the daughter's parable to turn skepticism inside out. If you believe in creation, the harder miracle has already happened. Resurrection is only God repeating a trick He has already performed — and this time with the easier raw material.