Why do people die?

[Elderman]

To answer such questions, it will be a help for us to know

Who has the answers. Is it the atheist s? Is it evolution? Or does Science have the answer ? well all claim to have answers, at least insofar as death due to aging is concerned. But the Bible does have all the answers.
But there are more lies told about the dead than the living, that no one seem to agree on the subject.

[jomifl]

That is a difficult choice Sandy.. going straight to heaven without suffering the slings and arrows etc.. or a lifetime of temptation...I'm still waiting for the latter ;-)

[sandyRoe]

That's the great thing about Catholicism, you can let temptation trip you up,sin and wallow in it, but if you later make a sincere confession, and truly resolve to sin no more, the slates wiped clean.
My chief regret in life is that the opportunities for sin were few and far between.

[jomifl]

and you have a clean ***..err sorry slate?

[naomi24]

Back to Oscar Wilde. ;o)

[jomifl]

AB ed. replaced a perfectly good english word which can be found in most dictionaries with 3 asterisks thereby spoiling my attempt at wit. It rhymes with mutt and begins with the first two letters of 'slow'

[jomifl]

Thanks ed.. that was very prudish of you since it isn't even a swear word.

[sandyRoe]

Naomi, I wouldn't feel comfortable turning my back to Oscar.

I go regularly to confession on a Saturday morning. If God spares me and I survive past 11 o'clock tomorrow I'll be shriven and ready for whatever the next week may bring.

[naomi24]

Haaa! I thought that the moment I'd pressed submit, Sandy!! What a mistaka to maka!!

Jom, maybe a post in Suggestions? Just a suggestion.

[Elderman]

Every normal person desires life with good health. We seek relief from the pain and suffering that disease brings and we long for some way to escape from the weakening effect old age has on our bodies. It hurts us, too, when we see those we love afflicted by these things. Because of this, many persons ask, “Was all this part of God’s original purpose? When God created man, was it his purpose that man should grow old, and become deaf or blind? Did he mean for man’s skin to wrinkle with age, his heart to become diseased and his other organs to break down? Really, did God make man to die?” Well to atheist yes, to evolutionist yes, to none Christian yes, to True Christian no.
(James 1:14, 15)

[jomifl]

Not quite correct Elderman, I don't think any atheist thinks god made man to die as you have probably realised about now :-)

[andy-hughes]

"Really, did God make man to die?” Well to atheist yes,"

er, what God would that be?

[RATTER15]

>>>did God make man to die?” Well to atheist yes,<<<

To Atheists, you are talking nonsense as we don't believe in a God

[Elderman]

Before answering, ask yourself this, ‘Is there any evidence that universal atheism would lead to a better world?’ Consider: As many as 1.5 million Cambodians died in the Khmer Rouge effort to establish a godless Marxist state. And in the officially atheistic USSR, Joseph Stalin’s rule resulted in tens of millions of deaths. Granted, those evils cannot be directly attributed to atheism. But they do show that the rule of atheism does not ensure peace and harmony.

[naomi24]

You've forgotten to mention the troubles in the Middle East which are creating separation and mayhem for the whole world. I can't see many atheists among that lot!

[oldbillbuck]

Simple answer, it would be b****y crowded if we didn't

[RATTER15]

>>>Is there any evidence that universal atheism would lead to a better world?<<<

How many people have been killed in the name of Atheism??

How many people have been killed in the name of religion??

I know which world I would rather have.

[jomifl]

Elderman ..you are being a bit naive if you think that communist states were godless, 'The Party' was a substitute for a god and the party dogma was 'the word of god' and human life was sacrificed to it just as it is to most other 'gods'.

[ludwig]

Jomifl, I've done that before - had a perfectly harmless word zapped by asterisks. The irony is that the asterisks make what you said look much worse than it actually was, because people replace them with ruder words in their imagination. Very annoying.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt.

[jomifl]

Hi Ludwig.. I can't understand why the ed. would have a problem with the word s l u t , it is a perfectly normal word which you will find in the most prim dictionaries...

[Elderman]

If aging could only be postponed! Do you long for such a breakthrough? Who would not like to escape wrinkles, gray hair, brittle bones, loss of stamina, forgetfulness, vulnerability to sickness, and finally death? from what science has already achieved, is there any real basis for such optimism?
During this century, the developed countries of the world have experienced a dramatic increase in life expectancy. For example, in the year 1900 the average life expectancy of men in the United States was 46 years. “From 1900 to 1980 male life expectancy at birth increased 51% to 69.9 years,” states the American Journal of Gerontology. Now it is 71.8 years for men and 78.8 years for women. A number of other countries have an even higher life expectancy, with Japan the highest—74.2 years for men and 79.8 years for women. Does this prove that man’s life span has been extended?
The dramatic increases noted above are due largely to a lower infant-mortality rate. Today, more babies survive to adulthood than in past centuries. “Medical advances,” explains The Body Book, “have increased average life expectancy, but they have not increased the maximum life span.” As Brian Stableford, a biologist at the University of Reading, England, expressed it in his book Future Man: “Our lifespan has been reckoned since Biblical times as 70 years, and although two thousand years of scientific advancement have allowed many more people to reach that term, scientists have so far done nothing to extend it.” (Psalms 90:10)