Glad you asked. Christ is pretty clear in Mark 12.24. The Sadducees, to whom he is speaking, are wrong (they do not believe in a resurrection). Christ tells them that they are lacking two things and because of it they are wrong (for emphasis he repeats this in Mark 12.27, "you are quite wrong.")
I take from this verse that in order to be right about matters of faith we need to correctly understand the Scriptures (τὰς γραφὰς, or "the writings" a technical term for Scriptures), and we need to believe in the power of God to raise people from the dead. The Scriptures are doubly important because in them we find the power of God demonstrated and the truth about things like the resurrection. If we want to be "quite right" as opposed to "quite wrong," we will saturate our lives with the Scriptures.
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