Process Reversal in the Resurrection

It took 930 years for Adam’s moral failure to result in physical death. It took only three days for Christ’s perfect obedience to result in the reversal of death, indicating that Christ’s impact on humanity is much more powerful than Adam’s was. The natural and moral processes that were let loose by Adam’s moral failure are still at work to this day, and will continue to work until their logical and natural conclusions are reached. Everyone is going to die, being descendants of Adam, and subject to those processes.

However, Christ’s perfect obedience has started another set of processes that are the opposite of those let loose by Adam. These processes are not for every descendant of Adam. It is for a new race of man. For this new race, the processes that started with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are at work to make the perfect obedience of Christ a reality in its members. The result of perfect obedience is the reversal of death.

You become a member of this new race by being born again. It happens in the spiritual realm, where Adam’s legacy is nil because of his moral failure. They say Terri Schiavo is brain dead. This is only relative, because all descendants of Adam are dead. We have no more life than Terri does.

As it is in the spiritual, so it will be in the material. Christ’s legacy is in the spiritual and will be realized in the material world. His resurrection has impact in the here and now and in the future.