If the number of births is exactly equal to the number of deaths, then how can God be pro-life?
Yeah, yeah I know Christ rose from the dead but not into a corporeal human, but a spirit which ultimately returned to heaven. Technically he wasn't re-born.
2007-11-21 12:13:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone that is born will die. Couples produce more than two children sometimes, and population growth is not zero. Therefore the number of births will eventually equal the number of deaths.
2007-11-21 12:36:13 · update #1
Lazarus and everyone who was resurrected (except Christ) eventually died again. Remember, I said the number of births, not lives. So taking Lazarus example, I guess the number of deaths is greater than the number of births.
2007-11-21 12:38:43 · update #2
So Christ is walking around heaven, getting hair cut, evacuating bladder and bowel, picking lint out of his naval?
2007-11-21 13:05:35 · update #3
Regardless of the math - you raise a good point.
Does God accept death EQUALLY as he does life?
The answer is a resounding yes. He of course loves life, but he also loves death, as it is the engine of life. With out death there is no life.
Christians who miss this point have a shallow understanding of their own faith. It is only in their death in Christ in his acceptance of his own death are they reconciled and redeemed.
2007-11-21 12:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by johnatplayct 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Christ arose IN THE FLESH and walked around for over 40 days and ate and after death his physical body was a "resurrected" body, which is what we will ALL have in heaven. We don't turn into floating 'see-thru' spirits, or ghosts. We remain humans. Jesus was a resurrected MAN of God. He was flesh and bones.., NOT flesh and blood anymore, but his flesh and bones could walk through walls and he did! He appeared and disappreared at will, yet he ate food with the disciples.. (believing followers).
You can't "tick off a whole lot of people" who know you don't know or understand our Lord or His death, burial or resurrection.
What is this "technically he wasn't re-born"? He was born from above, he was God the Word who became flesh, he was baptized and died for real, was buried and went into hell and led "captivity captive and made an open show of the devil, got up from death since death couldn't hold him since he had no personal sin, and after emptying hell from all the souls held there who wanted His SALVATION (always giving and honoring people's free will choice), and lived in the earth again for enough days to show himself to those he wanted to show himself, the ascended into heaven after giving assignment to his followers/disciples and apostles to "go into the world and use my name and Holy Spirit and authority, etc."
HE is today STILL a resurrected MAN who overcame sin and the world!
2007-11-21 12:40:36 · answer #2 · answered by gg28 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's see. God made living things to mate and multiply to fill the Earth with their species. But also knew that if there was no death in the physical realm the Earth would soon become too small to maintain life. So either God had to make Earth grow in proportion to the ever increasing population or set a life span for the organisms on Earth. God chose to regulate the population with death. So I guess that makes God both pro-life and pro-death.
2007-11-21 12:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The no. of births/deaths are not equal day to day. God's Word specifically states he is pro-life.Jesus was a totally,completely flesh/bones person when he rose from the dead. If you'll remember he appeared to many, many people.They touched his wounds, etc. Then he ascended into Heaven.
2007-11-21 12:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by paula r 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong answer.
Jesus was raised to be a corporeal human.
So was Lazarus.
That makes the number of birth to deaths uneven.
Lazarus died again without being "born".
God is "pro-God".
For that to happen, people need to live. (Dead people don't gain any understanding of God.)
God prefers to arrange births and deaths himself, thank you, without anyu outside interference.
That would make "pro-God" equal "pro-life".
2007-11-21 12:23:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because for each birth, there was life. Then death. Not death before the chance of life.
2007-11-21 12:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If our birth is a product of a perfect God, why would we need to be born again?
2007-11-21 12:17:27 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the number of births does NOT match the number of deaths (other than the blanket statement "everyone that is born will die"), otherwise the Earth's population would be entirely static
2007-11-21 12:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by grandfather raven 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I could be wrong,, But I think your math is too,,Honey the Birth rate is grossly outnumbering the the death rate,,
2007-11-21 12:18:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
you seem to be forgetting the rest of us who will be rising to Heaven after we die
Eternal life
2007-11-21 12:30:14 · answer #10 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋