No, not quite the same thing, but for me it's less about believing there was an actual man in distant history who lived and died and came back to life and more about what that means - that even though we're mortal and we die, there's more to life than that - it's the belief in something bigger than ourselves, in hope..
but that's just how I see it.
I'm glad you have your husband here, though. That must be some comfort for the strange things we encounter in this world.