According to your religion, why do humans die?

Question

If you believe a God or Gods is responsible for the creation of humans, why would they be made to die? Also, why the 50-80 general age range? Why don't humans live to be 300? If you don't believe humans were created by God, but believe in a God, what are your thoughts on human death?

Also state your religion.

Answer 1

I am a Christian.
Death came into the world through sin.
According to the Biblical pattern, men lived much longer than today, up to almost a thousand years, until after the flood. After the flood lifespans began to decrease gradually and to level off to present day standards.

"The length of our days is seventy years—
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away. "
Psalm 90:10

The above Psalm is attributed to Moses, although he himself lived to be 120. However this is roughly so even today, though modern science has extended life beyond this - that is, if you consider what the extreme elderly experience is really "life".
There is death. There is corruption. I believe nevertheless that God has provided us a hope, and that He has borne witness to this hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Jesus Christ promised eternal life to all who would put their faith in Him. That would have been a pretty empty promise if He Himself had remained in the grave.

"I (Jesus) tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me (the Father) has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned..."
John 5:24-29

I believe Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

If all people lived forever, we wouldn't all fit on Earth, would we? There are already areas that are highly over-populated. And also, because of modern science/medicine, people are living longer than they used to.

I am Pagan. I feel death is just part of the natural circle of life. Nature works this way. Just like flowers die in Autumn, Winter provides a respite, and they grow anew in the Spring. I believe we learn what we are meant to learn in the physical body we are born into (our bodies may not be built to last forever, but are souls are), we die, we rest in the spirit world for a time, and then may be reincarnated, possibly because we choose to be, or because we have more to learn from the physical world before ascending into a higher realm of the after-life.

Personally, I wouldn't want to live to be 300! Struggling just to get by in this crazy world full of ignorance and hate for maybe 80 years or so is more than enough for me!

Answer 3

Sin (the breaking of any of the 613 Laws of Yahweh) produces death that is why we as humans die.

As Yahweh told disobedient Adam and Eve, dying you will die if you don't obey the every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.

We are leaning a valuable lesson in our very being what the rejection of Yahweh's laws brings, look around and notice that there are over 1000 diseases that are now at epidemic levels. Why is this?

Just like the law of gravity, if you break it you suffer the consequences, same applies to the Laws that Yahweh established from the beginning that Satan has deceived the world into rejecting them as she has and you are now able to wittiness the end results of sin.

This was Yahweh's plan from the beginning to show mankind what sin produces.

Through Yahweh's mercy, we are able to be resurrected and when we are we will be shown what caused our demise and we will never go that way again.

Yahweh created the earth as a training ground for mankind to see if we would truly believe in his Laws, or would we have to learn the lesson the hard way, the way that the whole world has chosen the way of sin and death.

Answer 4

Humans die because it is their time.
Those that die in unfortunate cases died because it was their time to leave this earth.
There is no such a thing as the human body being able to survive to 300 years, although i wish it could because that would be quite amazing to see !
50 years ago, humans only lived to be 60.
and now people are living to 90. and some even make it to 100
so who knows maybe in another 50 years from now humans will live to be 200? and so on.
maybe life on earth is improving.
we'll just have to wait & see !

Answer 5

Perhaps dying is not the problem. It's like graduating from school. Everyone does eventually. The question is, did I learn anything. Tragedy is not in our dying, but if we waste our time here, not learning what this life is meant to teach us. The characteristic of this life is our unawareness of the next life - of the spiritual world. Yet like a child growing up, when you leave innocence, you can't go back. When we die, i.e. pass to the next world, we don't go back - nor will we want to. It seems, as I get older, 50-80 years is enough time to become wise, which is perhaps 'the purpose of life'.

Answer 6

When God first created Adam and Eve, they had the ability to live forever. But they sinned and now we die.

Gen 2:16 And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

Answer 7

I'm Ortodox Christian. According to the Bible the first people were created by God.God gave them the gift of etternal life in Paradise , withut pain or sufferings.But because of the spiritual fall of the people and the fact that we created evel,God took his gift back.Death is a stage,a metabolic level between our life on Earth and our life in Paradise together with Christ.(al least that's what I've read in my relegion book at school).Wiht the fact that Christ(who is said to be both human and God),(I'm talking now as a historical figure of him) was the first to rise from the dead ,he started the ressurection of all mankind.It is said in the Bible that when God will show himself the second time at Earth(the AntiChrist) than it will be the end of history and the dead will rise from their sleep and their bodies will be reformed and those who believed in God will live with him in Paradise.
Now no one knows whether it's true.......
But the meaning of death is actually the dissapearing of the evil element that we have created and the endless life in Paradise which follows that.
Practically, God didn't make us mortal,but our spiritual fall has.
The scense of Ortodox Christianity is the hope that one day we will all rise from dead and live endlessly in Paradise.

TO my oppinion, the most important thing is to live on maximum this life now.....cause yo never know what is then.
P>S from the medical point of view, our cells stop regenerting at the age of70-80 and we slowly die.

Answer 8

Religions are nothing to do with humans death. Allowing humans to live as u say 50-80 not able to tolerate their atrocities.. no one knows when the end will come.. hua..hua.. 300 years? no place in the earth..if all borns living how to manage? Don't think impossibilities. i'm Hindu.

Answer 9

I am a Christian... but I don't have the answer. In pondering your question, I was thinking of really good reasons why we die. However, they all seemed to go back to why were we even born in the first place? What is our purpose? What can we do on earth that we cannot do in heaven? Even if you don't believe in God, what is your purpose? Sorry to answer your question with a question...

**edit** check out YUHATEME's answer... it seems to answer my questions, too

**edit** ah-ha... the reason God didn't create us all just to live in heaven was because he wanted to sort out the ones who didn't want to be there. In giving us live on earth, we can see good and evil, and we have the choice to partake in which ever one we want. If it is Good you choose, then you are rewarded with eternal live in Heaven. If you are Good, death is not to be feared... but rather embrased.

Look at that, you can find the meaning to life on Yahoo Answers!

Answer 10

Apostolic-People die as a result of the fall brought on by Adam/Eve. The Bible says there is a time to be born and a time to die. We go back to the dust from whence we were formed. We begin dying from the time we are born.