Posted on 09/03/2023 5:29:22 AM PDT by daniel1212
In the United States, women might live to 81.2 years, on average, whereas men have a life expectancy of just 76.4 years....
Social interaction, having a pet, and walking faster have all been recently shown to boost one’s longevity.
Could religion have the same effect on our lifespan? New research suggests so. Researchers led by Laura Wallace, a doctoral researcher in psychology at the Ohio State University in Columbus, have conducted two studies whose results show that religion could give believers a 4-year longevity boost.
The findings were published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science....
Religion boosts lifespan by up to 6.48 years
In the first study, Wallace and colleagues analyzed 505 obituaries published in the Des Moines Register between January and February 2012.
The second study analyzed 1,096 obituaries published online in 42 major cities across the U.S. between August 2010 and August 2011.
In both studies, the researchers accounted for sex and marital status, as well as the number of religious social activities the people had participated in.
The first study showed that religious believers lived 9.45 years longer than those who did not have a religious affiliation in their obituary.
After their sex and marital status had been accounted for, believers lived 6.48 years longer, on average, than non-believers.
In the second study, that gap was 5.64 years at first, then 3.82 years after considering sex and marital status.
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2 aspects: 1) The belief itself
2) Those who believe practice a different lifestyle than those who don’t.
Alcohol, drugs, promiscuity shorten lives. Kneeling to pray does not.
Makes you wonder who Soros believes in?
True- if someone could grant me an extra 6.5 years, in my present condition I’m not sure I would take it, although being a coward when it comes to the act of the dying process (ive had an NDE which affected me negatively- long story), I probsbly would succumb to taking it to “delay the inevitable dying process”
Tnere’s a song that goes “Jesus make up my dying bed so’s I can die easy”- that’s my prayer, but I have a sneaking suspicious it ain’t gonna be easy because of how I lived (smoking. Drugs, alcohol) and due to present condition. I guess my suspicion amounts to “little faith”- but there it is.
No, it will extend your life forever.
[[Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith]]
Yep- doesn’t matter what the sins were, they can be completely and totally forgivrn and forgotten by God (although we still have to suffer the consequences of our sections ie drug addicts will likely suffer the desire for drugs for life, and have to endure whatever consequences the former drug use caused like lung cancer, or any kind of cancers really, or std from using dirty needles etc- consequences don’t dissappear just because God forgives and forgets our sins)
All we have to do is forget trying to save ourselves by “being good” or doing good deeds or belonging to a church etc, and go to the cross and throw ourselves on his mercy onwoing we can never save ourselves. Coming to that realization is what repentence means.
God’s kingdom is big enough for everyone, but sadly too few will let go of their pride and admit they need christ to save them.
I suspect he has made money and power his gods. His actions exude evil
...and if you don’t, you’ll be very happy with the afterlife.
Yes, it’s that hedonist lifestyle and those hedonist life choices that’ll kill you.
If apart from this life, what delay?
The findings are in general, and exceptions do not make a norm.
That's it. "apart from this life.
I expect to reach 100 years old and faith is definitely part of that possibility.
It’s up to God, I don’t have any really bad, unhealthy habits however I don’t desire a real long life on this earth.
I'm with you.
I came close to death several years ago and came to terms with dying. It's a natural happening -- and in some/many cases a good thing.
After spending your life clawing your way through this world, and for me actually succeeding, it's hard to give up old habits. But your priorities sure change!
It's also important to impart what little wisdom I have to my children and grandchildren -- if they will listen. Helping them succeed in life is an important focus. I'm lucky; mine do listen sometimes and seem to appreciate it. I think that is pretty unusual.
Anyway, were promised paradise. I really don't know what paradise is, but I can imagine. I'm pretty sure I will never understand what it is while I'm part of this world.
But, here is what I do know, without a doubt....
So, some things we will never know or understand while we occupy this planet. But then......:-).11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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