Why do all living things die? What is the purpose in that? Assuming you believe in God of some sort, what part does death play in God's grand scheme of things? If you believe in some sort of an afterlife, why don't people just start out there and never die?
2007-01-30 17:35:59 · 18 answers · asked by Link 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Death is the penalty for sin.
Death is also the way God prevents the world from being overwhelmed by evil.
Left to their own devices, over long, long periods of time, an immortal man might tend to become irrevocably corrupt.
Death has a way of straightening people out.
2007-01-30 21:58:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is a human concept. Things don't die, they CHANGE. All the atoms that make up your body once existed as something else, and in the future, they will again exist as something else, perhaps something which we describe as "living." In a distant past, some of the elementary particles that make up "you" may have been rocks, or plants, or ice on a comet, or a stain on a mattress.
Matter can not be destroyed, only changed.
People who believe in an afterlife believe that "they" are something more than the matter and energy that forms the substance of their body. The believe that "they" are independent of their physical form. They think this something goes "on" after they stop. This is a delusion caused by fear and arrogance. The truth is, they are afraid of change, and don't fancy the idea of becoming something else, like another mattress stain.
2007-01-30 17:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't answer the God part. Death is actually something that is biologically necessary if our genes are to keep getting passed down and letting us evolve as a species. Without death there would be very little room for reproduction and one of the major events that experiences mutations is reproduction.
Perhaps I'm being devil's advocate but would it be interesting to say that at the point where we can alter our own genes that we will no longer have to die?
Look up "telomeres" and you'll find quite an interesting read.
2007-01-30 17:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by d.anconia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the great scheme of things i think that if we all lived forever animals,humans and organisms in this one life we're are given no civilisation would work.not to say there is an afterlife but why waste this life wondering if theres anything better when there could be nothing at all and technically if there is an afterlife its not like you're going to know are you?we dont even know whats going on when we are sleeping in this life!???I dont think death is a part of anything because its the end of what you know now anyway=)
2007-01-30 17:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by ccz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If nothing died then there would be too much competition for food and living space. As there is no god or afterlife, death is just part of the natural order that has evolved over the last few billion years.
2007-01-30 17:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by Peter F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the view of one that dont believe in god. Death helps keep the populaton down, there is no point in doing anything because you got forever to worry about it. Death and life is a cycle to keep things going here on earth.
2007-01-30 17:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Countess Bathory 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of death is this: organisms need to evolve to survive. In order to evolve, they need to reproduce. Reproduction means death of older organisms and life for newer ones.
Oh, and there is no God. Seriously. There isn't.
2007-01-30 17:40:57 · answer #7 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ice demon makes an Icee for me but he uses way too much syrup, but I like it that way and ask a question about life and death and sex and marriage and pulling a wheelbarell but don't take too long because like is short like Napoleon.
2007-01-30 17:42:45 · answer #8 · answered by Nosferatu Needs Lovin' Too 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For all things to have an end..just like a bad movie. I agree...no god! If so he musta pulled Houdini and split
2007-01-30 17:42:43 · answer #9 · answered by healthykidnow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is just the passage from this life to another. What we do in this life will decide on our outcome on the other.
2007-01-30 17:44:02 · answer #10 · answered by bojinx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋