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[Speical--4] ORIGIN of DEATH

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Life originated with a life designer and so did our thinking capability. Since God is a happy being, eternal and perfect beyond reproach, we should be likewise. But clearly our life isn’t like that. The original purposes of life as shown above have not been fulfilled. What went wrong?

Now, we know that our body development is sustained by nutrition. Well-balanced nutrition leads to a healthy body, which is why life expectancy in developed countries is longer than that in the developing world. We also know that there are around 100 trillions cells that make up our entire body. An unimaginable number! Although we can observe a few main functions of theirs, details completely elude us and nobody knows why they function the way they do. The most amazing truth is this: they know when to reproduce to replace those died out. This process continues non-stop until at a certain moment in time when it gradually slows down till one day it stops altogether. When this happens, a person dies naturally.

The most troubling question we have always asked ourselves is, Why do cells stop reproducing? We don’t know. We do know, however, that since our body substances are all chemicals that are maintained by good nutrition, therefore suppose that if we keep eating and drinking in the best possible way and live in a perfect environment without harmful pollution, shouldn’t cells keep working properly, and thereby, giving us a very long life, even an eternal one? This shouldn’t be impossible from a strictly chemical point of view. Look at an old car, for example. Even if that car has been abandoned for decades, if we repair it and put in all the necessary items, the engine will absolutely start. There’s no question about this. The machine just can’t refuse to start when the power runs through it according to the laws of physics. The machine has no brain to decide whether or not it wants to start! It is simply a mechanical thing, is it not? Likewise, our entire body is also a chemical/mechanical thing. People who can afford to have luxurious medicinal liquids injected into their wrinkled skin, the wrinkles suddenly disappear! Theoretically, any parts of our body can be repaired because they’re all chemical. So if we keep providing all the necessary things our body needs, it should always live, shouldn’t it? And yet, we die no matter how hard we try with all the injections we can think of. What does this really tell us?

It bluntly tells us one simple truth: that life isn’t just about the physical body (chemicals), that there must be an invisible part (non-physical) that secretly sustains life all along, an invisible part that is beyond our capacity to repair. We know this as spirit. When a person dies, his body doesn’t get lost (we even know how to preserve a dead body), what is really lost is the spirit.

Now we ask, How does the spirit get lost?

Science cannot explain how our spirit formed and how it is lost. The Bible says it comes from God. So when a person dies, it seems that God has decided to remove his spirit. But isn’t He a loving personality? Why would he take pleasure in ending one’s life? Also, as we’ve seen earlier, did He not himself set out the purposes of life in such a way that we should even live forever? By removing a spirit from someone, God seems to have contradicted himself. Most people would think so. But, is it really so?

First of all, take a look back at what happened in the garden of Eden. At the same time God was setting out the purposes of life, He also laid down a strict command that Adam should not eat fruits from a certain tree. God clearly told him what would happen if he did not obey the command. Yes, God said that any such disobedience would bring in death. If Adam did not disobey, he wouldn’t die. But he disobeyed and then eventually he died. Death, therefore, followed disobedience. In other words, death didn’t come from God, it came from Adam’s own disobedience or sin. Therefore, when the spirit disappears, it disappears as an automatic result of sin, and not because God has decided to take it away as some may think. Again we ask, but it was Adam who sinned, not us, so why do we have to suffer from what we didn’t do? Take a look at how a photocopier works. If we place a paper with a drawing of the Eiffel Tower on the screen of a photocopier and press the start button, what do you think will be printed on all the sheets that come out of the photocopier? Yes, each and everyone of those sheets automatically bears the same drawing of the Eiffel Tower! Likewise, death caused by Adam is automatically attached to all his children, us.

So, death is a matter of sin due to which the spirit disappears. And since the invisible spirit is not dependent on nutrition either, no nutrition can prevent it from leaving us. That’s why suddenly, despite what we do, those cells simply don’t listen and stop reproducing.

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[Special--2] THE end OF our THINKING capability

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Does the thinking capability perish at death? Or, on the contrary, does it survive the dead physical body? We have by now settled on the fact that thinking originated independently from the physical body. Therefore, it appears to be eternal (as opposed to the perishable body) and would never die. Is this true?

To answer this question, we need to look at what we usually refer to as “spirit.” Since thoughts are non-physical (we cannot touch them), they belong to the spirit part, clearly distinguishable from the physical body. So, to find out whether spirit survives at death (and logically whether the thinking capability survives) we need to know what truly happens at death.

There are two known views. A popular one holds that spirit never dies and would leave the body and continues on into the spirit realm although the physical body does perish. This belief is the very foundation of many religions where worshiping the dead is widely practiced because people either fear harm that the dead can cause, or need some help from the dead in some way. The spirit of the dead, according to them, still functions and is powerful. Is this a reliable belief? The second view, however, preaches that spirit is extinguished at death. The dead have no knowledge whatsoever since the source of knowledge (the living part, the living soul) has disappeared. This second view compares the disappearance of the spirit to the fire that disappears from the fireplace when the woods have been fully consumed. Did that fire go to the bathroom or the kitchen instead? Absolutely not. It went nowhere, it simply disappeared.

Now, as for the view which holds that life came from non-life materials, the spirit must have self-originated with the fleshy body and should likewise perish with it when the body perishes (because scientists cannot believe that spirit formed outside of the body by some supernatural force, for otherwise, they would have to acknowledge the existence of God). Spirit, therefore, completely disappears at death, making any incarnation theory unrealistic. Now, what about the second and Bible-based view that says that spirit (although initiated and given by God) also perishes at death (therefore, also no incarnation)? At a first look, since spirit was born independently from the body (God put the spirit/the breath of life into the body after the body had already been formed), it seems that spirit should not perish together with the body if God decides to keep it alive somewhere else. The Almighty God certainly has the power to do so. But the question is, Does God keep a person’s spirit alive somewhere else outside of his dead body so that the spirit lives on in the air?

As shown above, the Bible is plainly clear on this point. The dead knows nothing because the spirit disappears at death (example of the fire that disappears from the fireplace). But things change when God acts. The first account regarding the resurrection of the dead into the spirit realm is the case of Jesus following three days of spirit-less death. During this death period, Jesus knew nothing and did nothing because he had no spirit. However, upon being resurrected by God, he became again alive, marched with his disciples and later was taken back to heaven. This is one example of heavenly resurrections. It’s important to note that it’s only through resurrection that the spirit gets restored by God, the original spirit-giver. Without resurrection, death is eternal. The Bible furthermore shows that there are earthly resurrections too. This was shown, for instance, in the well-known resurrection of a man named Lazarus. Again, the true fact is that upon his return from death, Lazarus said nothing regarding what happened to him during his death. He did not come back and tell of awesome stories of places he had been. Why couldn’t he? This is simply because during the days he was dead he went nowhere. His spirit had simply disappeared (the same case for Jesus during the time he was dead).

Therefore, the Bible clearly teaches that spirit (hence, the thinking capability) does not survive death. It automatically disappears at death and can only be restored when the spirit-giver (God) so decides.

To conclude, both views held by science and the Bible do agree on one important truth: that our thinking capability perishes at death for lack of the spirit (“functional brain” so to speak). Therefore, we should neither fear the dead nor hope that the dead can be of any help because they know nothing. The stark difference between so-called "science" and the Bible, though, lies in the shocking fact that the Bible gives hope to those who have died that they can be brought back to life again at the proper time by acts of resurrection because not only can God resurrect the spirit, He is also capable of re-creating the fleshy body from simple dust (remember that Adam’s body was formed out of dust, therefore, anyone can be re-created from dust).

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[Speical--1] ORIGIN of YOUR thinking CAPABILITY

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Why do you think?
Or, how did we become to have thoughts, feelings and emotions?

Animals don’t think but act according to their limited intelligence called 'instinct', which doesn’t appear to have changed (bees have made the exact same structure of their nest for as long as we can track back). Robots don’t think either, for they can only perform following the pre-conceived program of actions. Any attempts to invoke a human-like thinking ability in animals and robots must be part of fairy tales and action movies.

When our mind is relatively free from our busy daily preoccupations, when it casually rests, we would sit alone and tend to entertain some noble thoughts. We may ask simple questions as these ones: Is this person sitting here really me? Why am I conscious that the one in the mirror is me? When I’m doing something, do I actually accept that this is me doing it? Why do I think at all? Indeed, who gave me the thinking capability?

Now, we all know that the thinking capability is only found in humans. Therefore, it seems to have originated with humans. We’d ask, How did humans come to be? Some speculate that we came from some by-chance chemical reactions involving non-life substances. Their conviction is that non-life substances are the ancestors of life. For if those scientists accepted that life could only come from a readily previous life, they would have to explain where that previous life came from and the queries would go on forever unless they acknowledge that somehow there simply existed a very First Life that came from anywhere— which was just there, so to speak— which then caused other living forms to appear. However, since those scientists cannot accept any such self-existing life either, they have to keep believing that life originated from non-life materials. On the contrary, the Biblical view of creation bluntly declares that our human life, for instance, had two First humans as ancestors, who were readily created by a living God who has no beginning.

Which view makes more sense? For those believing that life came from non-life materials, how would they explain that emotionless/thoughtless chemicals could ever have generated a life full of thoughts, feelings and emotions such as ours (can one burn a desk and a chair together and hope to get a rabbit out of the burning?)? Therefore, life (and our thinking capability) appears to have originated with a readily life-giver who clearly has complete thoughts, feelings and emotions and who simply had decided to share such capability with us. But how?

Let us not forget that our body entirely consists of physicals (water, flesh and bones), which is why a dead physical body, if left to the ground, will eventually get dissolved with other chemicals found in the ground dirt. The thinking capability, the non-physical part, did not come from the ground. Interestingly, the Bible says that Adam only became a “living soul” (that is, a body with a now-functional brain or thinking capability) after God had blown “the breath of life” into his nostrils. Before that breath of life, Adam was a dead physical body with a dead brain without any thoughts. The thinking capability, therefore, came from the life-giver, God.


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