Did God Really Intend Man to Live Without Death?

Death; has always been a petrifying Angel to almost every living creature; except perhaps those who don’t find life amusing any longer, and do not feel any wind of faith for a better tomorrow.

Although the inevitability of Death is not hidden from majority of us, the thought of its occurrence to us, is a discussion worth discarding by almost every one. However, when you try to digest the reason (s) why people are afraid or not willing to abandon life, you realize that one reason is common to humankind; “fear of the unknown”, about life after death; and sometimes the pain of separation from friends and relatives.

Death as I have already expatiated in my maiden book, “The body, the Spirit and the Soul and how they function”, is a means to an end and not an end in itself. So there is life after death; except that life after death happens in another realm of life, different from how we experience it in this physical form.

The purpose of this discussion is to help readers to embrace the reality that; Death is as relevant as Life except that the true relevance of the former is predominantly hidden from man. Death is a complete crossover of the Spirit and Soul into the spiritual world. Complete because we can cross over to the spiritual world even whiles alive, but on the contrary, when it becomes complete crossover; your body gets separated permanently from your Spirit and Soul.

Christians and Muslims believe that, Adam was deceived by Satan or Iblis to partake of the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and this ceased the eternal life that God bestowed on mankind.

Genesis 2: 16 & 17 reads, “16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

The very interesting old age debate is that, perhaps Adam would have lived forever if he had eaten the fruit of life first. But my question is; did God really intend mankind to live without ever experiencing Death?

My answer to this question is a BIG NO. Listen; everything that God created has a two way side effect. Science says, “Action and reaction are equal and opposite, Accounting says Debit the receiver and Credit the giver and philosophy believes there is cause and effect for every action”.

At the beginning of creation, when God realized that the world was without form, he called for light and separated darkness from the light, but did not banish the darkness. Because both light and darkness have equally good purposes depending on how you utilize the two. Just imagine a world full of light without a flash of darkness.

Right from the beginning of creation, God was clear in his mind that; Death is a process that man or the living would have to experience; as a means of ending one regime for another to begin. Before the sin of Adam, no living creature (including plants and animals) had died before; but it was the action of Adam that triggered Death for all the living. God had already created death, but he also created a mechanism to activate it or cause it to happen; and of cause no creature could have qualified to activate it but man; as head of all God’s creation.

Matthew 18:7 reads, “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come”. Also Luke 17:1 says, “Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come”.

This is the reason why every person’s death is activated by a cause, even as at today and forever.

If God had wanted Adam to live without death, he would have done one of two things; direct Adam to eat the tree of life first, and guard the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to prevent Adam and his wife from reaching it.

But what happened, Genesis 3: 22-24 reads, “22 And the Lord God said, the man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life”.

Interesting, isn’t it?

Conclusion

In conclusion, I am convinced that Life and Death were created by God to serve unique purposes, just like light and Darkness. The way Light supersedes Darkness is the same way Life supersedes Death; but each one of them exists for good purposes; except that some of these purposes are mostly hidden to mankind. My advice is; just make good choices to the best of your ability and leave the rest to God. Don’t be afraid of death; as it might be of good to you.