The NATURAL process which God has established, partly by creation and partly by judgment, is birth, growth, decay, death and dissolution. This is the cycle of nature. It includes man: ‘you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’ The very concept of ‘resurrection’ is therefore SUPERNATURAL. At Christ’s resurrection the natural process of physical decomposition was not only arrested, nor even reversed, but actually superseded. Instead of dissolving into dust, his body was transfigured into a new and glorious vehicle for his soul. Indeed, the resurrection of Jesus is presented in the New Testament as the supreme manifestation of the supernatural power of God.