can somebody please tell me why we humans grow old and die?

Answer 1

What would be the alternative?

Answer 2

If you are asking as to spiritual or philisophical reasons, that's really a tough one for which we will probably never get a straight answer. Even the Judeo-Christian Old Testament says that after a certain point in time, God limited man's days to something like 120 (?), with the idea that the human spirit or "soul" is eternal and the human body is only a shell for this phase of our life--a shell which we shed prior to the next phase of our eternal existance.

If you are an atheist or evolutionist, then physiological contributors to aging should be explored--all animals are programmed and hormone-regulated to age at a certain rate, but we know only a few of the hormones that cause aging. Insulin is one of them. All other things held constant and politics aside, if you eat diet that is high in sugars (most carbohydrates, insulin required to process), you will likely die much earlier than someone who eats very little sugars and more protein and fat. You also risk diabetes and heart disease early in life due to developed insulin resistance caused by high carbohydrate intake.

Calorie restriction lengthens lifespan as well, and those who live a calorie-restricted lifestyle tend to become centenarians (100+ years old), some still active and healthy. Studies on rats show calorie-restriction to lengthen life greatly compared to the "all-you-can eat" group, and proponents of this method claim that humans should routinely be living 120-130 years.

Tough question, for which absolute answers are not available, but hope this gives you some areas to contemplate and research on your own.

Answer 3

We don't have to, it's just a belief and the power of believing causes the condition ( In this case it's death ) to manifest. I don't believe I'm ever going to grow any older or die, so I haven't and I won't. I accept everything as being real that benefits me and deny all harmful things, it works like a charm, gives me a great life; full of love; and good health. If Your young start now, don't accept what others say as being fact or undeniable and You could live forever Young!!! I stopped aging at forty and I'm four hundred and fifty years old now ( Aproximately, records from that period are not very good so it could be a little more or a little less. ) so it really is well worth putting the effort into. Take care.

Answer 4

The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection, the resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later. (Rom. 6:23; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Ps. 146:3, 4; John 11:11-14; Col. 3:4; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 1 Thess. 4:13-17; John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:1-10.)

Answer 5

We grow old and die because on this side of life we have no eternal existance because Adam fell. When Adam fell so did the whole human race after him and all things like sickness, death and sorrows entered in

Answer 6

This was a blessing from God. After Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden God made this statement: Genesis 3:22 "Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-- There were two trees in the garden, one of them was the tree of life. According to this if they ate of it they would have lived forever. Can you imagine living forever is a world of sickness, sin, and decay? God in his mercy prevented that from happening so that Christ could come and conquor death so that man could live for eternity in a perfect world. That little verse may very well be the first insight in the Bible into what hell is, living, separated from God, with no possibility of escape forever.

Answer 7

According to Christian scripture, human flesh is corrupted so it must pass away.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death...

We can bring salvation to our souls, but our bodies are built to be temporary.

2 Corinthians 5:6
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
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Answer 8

Same reason why trees and turtles do . . . age. It's what we do while living before we die and pass over the to the other side is what matters and is what's ' looked ' at on the other side. Karma, Darma, lives between lives , reincarnation . . .

Answer 9

The natural radiation of the sun effects us over time, and some scientists theorize aging is a virus that they are working on making a vaccine for to stop aging, and hopefully give us longer lives.

Answer 10

AFTER mans fall, God appointed man 120 years to live. IF we die younger it is because we have done it to ourselves with all the toxins in the earth that man has put there. Christ said that, "it is appointed once for man to die, and after that judgment"

Answer 11

mostly we only see that in order to die something has to be born. but it is also the other way round: birth requires dead. existence is constant change, everything goes constantly through the circle, without change there would be no existence at all.