WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF CREATING HUMANS IF THEY HAD TO DIE LIKE THE OTHER SPECIES?

At this moment, I find myself among those people who ask this same question after someone they dearly loved had ceased to exist: Why God caused us to exist if, someday, we have to cease existing? However, I’m not the kind of person who likes to lay in mourning when bad things happened; I want to know why they did happen through researches. In order to accept the loss of my dear sister, I had to focus my search on three questions: Why humans were created? Why do they die? Can death condition of men be reversed? Amazingly, I got all the answers I needed in the Bible, the one-and-only accurate research book regarding the existence of living elements on earth.

WHY HUMANS WERE CREATED?

    Humans were created to live forever to love and worship God; and more importantly, to obey Him at all times. God (the Creator) said: “Let us make man to our image; after our likeness” (Gen. 1: 27). Since the Bible is clearly indicates that God is Spirit/Eternal (Gen.1: 2), being created to His image and likeness (duplicate), men should live eternally as well; but why do they die!

WHY DO HUMANS DIE?

    During the creation, God has filed the earth with all kinds of species from humans, animals, and things; alls were required to worship and obey God. He made a promise to men that if they obey His commands they will live forever. But if they don’t, they will die forever (Gen.2: 17). Animals and things are complying with God’s desires, though they were not included in the promise. But the first group of human had chosen to live by their own desires and went their way. By turning away from God, men had chosen Death over Life”. That’s why, generations after generation, men are continuing to pay the consequence of the sin committed by their predecessor. But that curse could change for all people.

CAN THE CURSE OF DEATH BE REVERSED FOR HUMAN KINDS?

The answer is YES, but there is a condition! – From the creation of men, God knew that they were not perfect due to the fact that men are just His optical image created with dirt. He knew that they will make mistakes that would impact their state of innocence and the promise of everlasting life. So, He had already made plan to redeem men from their sins. But, there is another condition – more easily than the old one, it says:  “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3: 16). This promise is not for people who are already dead; the livings must decide to accept Jesus-Christ as personnel Savior before they cease living. Accepted Jesus-Christ means that you believed that He is the Son of God came on earth to be born as human, so He could experience death, conquer it, and to be resurrected and lived forever. Jesus–Christ promises us that because He lives, whosoever believes in Him will also live forever. The understanding is that: If you did believe and accept Jesus while you were living, when you die, the envelope that held you (the spirit) stays in the grave to return to dirt, which it was created with; but the spirit is returns to God to live forever.  As for my beloved sister, she did accept Christ as her savior, and live day by day relying on that promise that she will live again after her time is over in this world.

Laura Pelliton/Zeida

© July 13, 2019