It seems like everyone always is doing everything possible to make their life longer, to avoid dying. Its funny because awhile ago I asked a question on here of "Do you want to live forever" or something like that... I was shocked at how many people said "No"...... But yet, if I was to say "Ok, then pick a day that you are going to die" nobody could or would want to do that. It is our natural desire to want to live. What is the cause of Age and Death? Most everyone agrees that it is because of the first man and women, Adam and Eve. They were perfect, then they sinned and caused sin and death for mankind. Romans 5:12 reads: "That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned." So where should we put our trust? And what do you think our TRUE HOPE is???? I have scriptures to support my views, but what do you think?
2007-01-08
06:39:34
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Thankfully, this situation is not permanent. Romans 8:20 says: "The creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will but through him that subjected it, on the basis of hope." Man's Creator, Jehovah God, subjected humans to death because they sinned against him, but when doing this he also established a basis for hope.
This basis was clearly identified when Jesus Christ came to earth. John 3:16 says: "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life." exercising faith in Jesus is the real way to everlasting life. Jesus gained such life in heaven, and his faithful apostles and some others will too. Yet, for most of us who exercise faith in Jesus, everlasting life will be on earth, when Jehovah God has restored the earthly Paradise.—Isaiah 25:8; 1 Corinthians 15:48, 49; 2 Corinthians 5:1.
2007-01-08
06:56:25 ·
update #1
The Bible shows that we have hope of everlasting life here on earth! Imagine living forever, pefect, never sick, happy (true happiness, which we don't know what this is like b/c we have never had this) peace and so on....The Bible shows that by means of a resurrection, living forever will also be extended to those who are dead. (John 5:28, 29) Many of the mysteries of history might become clear to us when those who experienced them can fill in the details and answer our questions. Think of all the insight on different periods of history that the resurrected ones will supply.—Acts 24:15. For those putting trust in Jehovah and exercising faith in Jesus, prolonging life beyond the limits of time is not just an elusive dream. It will soon become a reality. Aging and death will cease. This is in line with Psalm 68:20, which says: "To Jehovah the Sovereign Lord belong the ways out from death."—Revelation 21:3, 4.
2007-01-08
06:57:42 ·
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