Death

I dont understand Death but i know there is a way to avoid it, Death is like a sickness and if your religoius then you can go with the anlogly that when adam and eve at the gold apple they were infected and that got into there genes and infected us all. In Science its just the body cant keep fixing and repairing itself and are cells are programmed to "get older" and are heart and brain can only take so many years of stress or this and that! So Death itself might be irrecoverable but there might be a way to stop it from a Science stand point. Hopefully God is real and frees us from are sin and we can live forever.

 

I guess that you can't really bump a debate because anyone can always bring their answers to the table, right?

Anyway, I don't want to stir up an argument in the sense of religion, because there's a thread for that, but surely the question of,"Why does Death exist?" stems from religion.

For example, an atheist, such as myself, would tell you that we die because all things must die. Nothing is immortal.

A Hindu may tell you that death is just part of the cycle of samsara, and without it, how else would we transition from phase to phase and re-incarnate?

I suppose, if you are christian and must come to terms with it, you could look at it in a similar light. One day your soul or your spirit has to pop up into that wonderful place in the sky, or not if you believe in hell, and the day you die happens to be that day. Even if there were a different solution, as far as Christianity can see, there's nothing wrong with this one.

Also, to further elaborate on my claims of everything must die. I mean it in as simple terms as possible, again not wanting to stir up a religious argument, everything on this mortal plane, what we identify as,'the universe' must end. It's a fundamental law that one day there will be nothing, and from nothing, something will come.

 

Oh yeah, there is that too.

Without shunting people off this Earth, we deny other's the chance to have kids, and quite generally halt advancement of all technologies.

 

As what Angel said. As one physical body dies, more are born. Plus death isn't unexpected. Earth to me is a realm of testing, you're being tested to see if you're worthy of everlasting life in heaven or wherever. Once you fulfilled your test, you move on to the next realm.

 

I'm sorry but I think I've already went as far as I can in this thread, not because I've ran out of things to say, but your entire debate comes from a very narrow perspective, and that's Christian.

I understand that Christians are plentiful in this world, but even if half of the world was Christian (which is isn't) there'd still be 3 and a half billion people who cannot possibly help you answer this question due to disagreeing on the fundamentals of it. Your question isn't,"Why do we die?" so much as,"Why does God allow us to die?" and that, I just cannot even begin to fathom.

 

I've already said what I believe, I'm an atheist so to me, Death is Death, it has to happen otherwise our society wouldn't advance, children couldn't be born and besides that, everything must, at some point end. It's the nature even of infinity, the never-ending number, that it must at some point be finite.

You're looking at it purely from a Christian perspective. Why does your God allow people to die when they have done no wrong? I'm not sure, we could babble on about original sin or his omniscience allowing him to know everything that ever will happen and thus being able to know who should die and who shouldn't.

This may come across as highly offensive, but maybe every single person at those Colorado shootings were the next Hitler's, we can never know now.

All in all, the God you believe in is said to be ineffable, and thus we shouldn't question his motives or actions, unless of course we don't believe in him.