I found the following statement from last week's book study remarkable:
"In the greatest of all demonstrations of his power, [Jehovah] resurrected his Son, Jesus."
This surprised me, but the more I thought about what it took to perform that feat, the more amazing it seemed. Being a programmer, I started to think in terms of the serialization of objects (bear with me here). An object can represent pretty much anything (customer, company, document, etc.), but an object is only "alive," so to speak, if it's loaded into memory. Once loaded, it can actively function, accept and return information, perform calculations, etc. If you pull the plug on the computer, however, the object disappears. If you want to preserve an object when the computer is powered off, or for the purpose of sending it to another com