Posted on 05/02/2022 6:47:08 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
LOL!
Are you an advocate of youth-in-Asia?
“Dying is the only thing that makes life worth living.”
So you’re not a fan of everlasting life after you die?
“We’d have a planet full of million-year-old people who had never had the joy of being a parent, who had no children to strive to make the world better for, and no motivation to do anything but sit around and eat bon-bons.”
That’s pretty much the way paradise is sold. Except you’d also be playing the harp while eating bon-bons.
“Dynazty - I Want To Live Forever”
That’s the song that immediately came to my head when I saw this post.
Abundance leads to more frequent selection, less the need for long life (not aging). A virus or germ might only need hours.
So then wouldn’t it follow that the opposite be true? Extremely rare single cell life forms needing the time to bump into each other or find a mechanism where by it splits into two. Not aging would be highly advantageous and yet still some calamity would at some point befall the cell, so not immortality.
Later, when there’s an abundance of these theoretically creature, aging would then become advantageous.
Seems like something you could extrapolate from Darwin’s theory. (For arguments sake.)
“What would the most valuable thing be? Clearly, longer life.”
Or Twitter, if you were Musk.
“There would be NO evolutionary advantage to living forever.”
Uh? That’s the definition of evolutionary success - an organism that has survived regardless of what nature has thrown at it.
That’s the pinnacle of evolutionary advantage, no?
God is only the father of those who have been born again (John 3). You are born again by grace THROUGH FAITH (Ephesians 2:8-9), which requires a decision on your part to turn from your present course, I.e., “repent”.*
“For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
John 8:44
* https://www.gotquestions.org/how-to-repent.html
I had actually never heard the song before. I give it kind of mixed reviews. At first I didn't like it but then it kind of grew on me the more I listened.
That “cure” will be the Mark of the Beast, so every Christian will choose death rather than take it. Our cure is real, eternal life, in new bodies made to be like the body of Christ when He rose from the grave.
“What would the most valuable thing be? Clearly, longer life.”
Longevity itself would not be the goal—longer healthy youth would be.
In addition, you would want freedom from meddling Karens in your personal and public life.
You are what is Scripturally referred to as a mocker. Your future does not look bright.
“That “cure” will be the Mark of the Beast, so every Christian will choose death rather than take it. Our cure is real, eternal life, in new bodies made to be like the body of Christ when He rose from the grave.”
I don’t understand why God plays these games with us. He could have made us perfect but chose not to. Why?
Oh I know - the original sin. In other words his very first attempt at making humans, it was less than perfect. He made them so they would disobey him - AND HE KNEW IT!- since he’s all knowing, right?
Something doesn’t add up.
You were predicted to be around at the end when the Word of God stated clearly that in the end scoffers will come. IF you survive the removal of the Body of Christ Believers, it is your ilk who will curse God.
Those who have not accepted His grace would be instantly destroyed in His presence... that’s the purpose of the grace, that we might live.
Sinful/evil humans can’t live in the presence of God anymore than darkness can remain in the presence of light.
“Those who have not accepted His grace would be instantly destroyed in His presence... that’s the purpose of the grace, that we might live.
Sinful/evil humans can’t live in the presence of God anymore than darkness can remain in the presence of light.”
But why did he make things that way?
He’s all powerful, he could have made all of us good and respectful of him, no?
“You are what is Scripturally referred to as a mocker.”
I’m not mocking, just using my God given brain to ask some simple and obvious questions.
Can you answer them?
If he wanted us to be perfect he might as well could have not created free will. How boring. It would be like locking every human up from the moment of birth in solitary confinement so-as to prevent us from ever committing a crime.
Free will opens the door for failure, but also for redemption. Without the possibility of rebellion and sin there cannot be free will. Without free will there can never be grace.
Aging is not a sickness. All that begins will eventually end.
As stated, I have no interest in living for 130 years just because science might make it possible. Big Whoop!
At that point, life is more a matter of ‘artificially enhanced biologic survival’ vs collecting new experiences. I’ll be the best dressed near-cadaver on the Sun Porch right next to my (opened, but undrank) bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.
““For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.” “
But who created the devil? Didn’t God create everything? And if so why would he create the devil?
If you were God and were totally against evil, would you have purposefully created the epitome of evil?
I have trouble making sense of that, don’t you?
Why dost thou strive against thy Maker?
https://biblehub.com/romans/9-20.htm
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