why can't we just die alone?

Question

not having a husband or wife allows us to devote to God better. For instance donating money and doing community service. the purpose of life is helping others who are in need.

Answer 1

You can die alone if you like and you can do it now. While alone in your house, you can commit suicide but it is a sin to commit it.
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Answer 2

Who says you don't devote to God when you raise a family and have a loving relationship with a spouse?

I would not say that the purpose of life is solely to help others, even though contributing to the community is important.

Everyone dies alone, married or not.

Answer 3

I'm not even really sure what your question means! If I die alone, so be it; but my mother was with my father when he died, my wife was with her father when he died, my wife and I were with her mother when she died, I guess just nurses and other nursing home personnel were with my mother when she died and nurses and other hospital personnel were with my older sister when she died.

Yes, some chose to remain single to serve and devote ourselves to the Lord and His work - to me the most notable ones are Chuck Swindoll's sister, Lucy Swindoll, and the late Corrie Ten Boom. We also had a Methodist pastor (who is a Christian) who chose to remain single and celibate as he served/serves the Lord and others. Probably Mother Teresa, and perhaps a few other nuns and Roman Catholic priests are also Christians serving the Lord. I also know many other single and married Christians who donate time and service, money and prayers to help others in need. I believe some actually serve better and more when they are married; while others feel led to serve alone.

Answer 4

You were born, there is a death also! But in between, God gave you this beautiful life, how you choose to live, it is deep in your heart. Life is full of experiences and life becomes an eternal test. We could live our life by helping others and giving new hope for the unseen. Beeing alone, only belongs to God and God wants you to multiply. When you die, you will be alone eternally, with all the good deeds you have accomplished.

Answer 5

But . . . what if your spouse has helped bring you closer to God, with a better understanding for His ways.

What if your children cause you to realize just how much God loves us and the things that He does for us because it is those same things that we would do for our children if only we could.

Paul never said that you SHOULDN'T marry or that you COULDN'T serve God if you were married. In fact, Paul says if you burn for one another, get married.

God made Eve a wife for Adam BECAUSE it's not good that man should be alone. If GOD made man and woman to be husband and wife, what's wrong with that??? And why should anyone assume that being married or having children would automatically take you further from God or make you less able to serve Him? In many, many, many, MANY more instances, the husband/wife ministry teams are far more valuable in ministry than just a man or a woman. After all, how can I as a married woman with children get valid counsel from someone who has not shared in similar experiences? How is someone who has been single going to empathise with a married person, and how is that single person going to advise a parent what to do with their troubled teens?

How can a single woman counsel a married woman on the topic of submission?

How can a single man counsel a married man on the topic of loving his wife as Christ loves the church?

How can a single person counsel a child in honoring his or her parents?

There is definitely room in the church for the single ministers, but I have found in my 25 years of Christianity that it is the married ministers (I don't mean clergy) who carry the brunt of the missions in the church.

Answer 6

Because there was a reason to get married, you stay through think and thin. And you die together.
I'm not sure about this question but there was a reason why God made it that way, he didn't want anyone to be alone rather it's alive or die.
No matter what you do, there will always be a dead person next to you when you go >.>

Answer 7

If you can go through life without fulfilling the need for emotional attachments, without fulfilling the desire to have children, & without looking at a woman with lust in your heart - then, go fer it!

On the other hand, you could just follow God's leading in your life & see what He has in store for you. "Helping others in need" is not the purpose of a Christian's life. Doing God's will is the purpose of a Christian's life. That, necessarily, involves helping others, but helping isn't your primary goal.

Answer 8

If that is your choice , but most people tend to want other people to talk to , and that is why God , provided Adam, with a Wife, For Companionship, because he was lonely. He did not mean for man to live alone.

Answer 9

No one said that marriage is an obligation. A person can live alone and die alone and worship God alone. And many highly ranked pious ones were like that.

Answer 10

I agree to an extent. You should also have the time in life to find love, a physical love that can appreciate you, stand by your side in your quest to help others. When you look into your spouses eyes, you should see the light of God in them. =)

Answer 11

That is so true.
BUT!! I WAS there, and my devotion to God DID grow, and I came to know Him in an INCREDIBLE CLOSENESS--and now I'm married, and I can STILL (WE) donate money--not only to the church--but we help when we can.

ALONENESS is very valuable--according to HOW you USE IT!!