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February 20th, 2009I believe that Jesus Christ, whose dead body was entombed, sealed, placed under guard, and left undisturbed until the morning after the Sabbath (on the third day in which he had been dead), did not remain dead. Like those whom Christ and the prophets had called back from death throughout Biblical history, Jesus rose from the dead: the normal biological function of the body to which His mother had given birth began again, despite the fatal wounds whose marks were still plain on his body. Unlike those whom Christ and the prophets had called back from the dead, however, Christ not only came back to bodily life but has been transformed (as all Christ’s people one day will be), so that His body is now insusceptible of death from natural or violent causes, and bears without mortal flaw the image of God.