2007-10-25 04:34:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's reparation for sin. The Scripture says, "....the wages of sin is death...." Though we can be redeemed in our SPIRIT by reining in our flesh, flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven due to it's sinful nature. Therefore, death is a "repayment" of the debt of sin.
2007-10-25 06:01:57 · answer #1 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The DNA in sperm and eggs gets old and full of errors and breakages. Eventually it's actually dangerous to make new babies with it. So reproduction has a limited life.
If an individual isn't reproducing, he or she is functionally useless as far as evolution is concerned. So they have no protection against cancers and serious diseases. And their tissue is failing too, as their cellular DNA wears down and breaks.
Eventually they just fall apart. Some organs are built to fail after a while, like lungs, which wear out at 120 years. Eyes start failing even earlier.
If people stayed alive anyway, despite these breakdowns, they'd be a drain on the society's resources and evolution would have to come up with a way to eliminate them. This isn't needed, however, as people die.
Modern humans live 3 to 4 times longer than Nature designed them to. Until recently people older that 50 were very unusual.
CD
2007-10-25 11:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a religious sense it is to escape the earthly bounds of your body and allow your soul to enter God's kingdom (or to make the soul enter Satan's domain).
In a philisophical sense death has no purpose.
In a scientific sense death is the end of the capability of yor body.
In a sociological sense, death is a means of freeing up space and money and resources for the young.
2007-10-25 11:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death serves no purpose. Death is the natural result of sin.
2007-10-25 11:39:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The prupose of death is death itself, noone or nothing which lives is allowed to live forever. It's called the laws of nature. Death comes to all of us.
2007-10-25 11:38:41 · answer #5 · answered by neshama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Death" has a two-fold purpose...it frees ourselves of the vehicle we used while doing our lifetime & opens the portal to Home...and, it provides others we have touched during our lifetime the opportunity to become of the choices they make of the experience.
Simple as that!!! Good Journey on touching many toward your way Home!!!
2007-10-25 11:55:16 · answer #6 · answered by MsET 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death of the earthly body, is the punishment all mankind must endure for the sins of our for fathers Adam. The penalty of sin is death. The good news is our Lord has overcome death. And all who put their faith in him shall as overcome as well.
2007-10-25 11:50:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is no "purpose" it is simply the end of life, the breakdown of the human or animal body's ability to function. just like a pipe, nothing lasts forever.
or the "premature" ending of it due to extreme amount of sudden trauma or a failure of it to function as it should.
actually the fact that "the machinery gets old and wears down" is proof against god and creationism.
2007-10-25 11:42:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is the Purpose of Life?
2007-10-25 11:38:11 · answer #9 · answered by King 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
To continue life. Without decaying organic matter, there would be no earth, no life. Without death (in a finite environment), there would be no space for life.
2007-10-25 11:38:48 · answer #10 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋