Genesis 3:19
God knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
God knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:14
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:26
"It may seem strange to refer to death as a Christian doctrine, but the Bible is replete with teaching on the subject. Equally clear is the fact
that the theory of evolution depends on death. Thanatology is the branch of theology dealing with doctrine of death, but it also refers to the scientific study of death—its forensic, psychological and social aspects.
Belief in evolution can radically alter one’s concept of death.
"It may seem strange to refer to death as a Christian doctrine, but the Bible is replete with teaching on the subject. Equally clear is the fact
Belief in evolution can radically alter one’s concept of death.
The whole creation/evolution debate revolves around the question of how God created.
Q: Was it by speaking things into existence ex nihilo, ‘out of nothing?
Q: Did He specially create unique kinds of living organisms upon the earth inside a single week?
Q: Or did God use evolution, spreading out this creative activity over hundreds of millions of years?
--If the latter, inevitably struggle, disease, violence and death would have been involved at every step along the way.
At the heart of the origins debate, then, we must face the question,
Q: Did God incorporate death into his creation from the very beginning?
Death is the ultimate enemy … However, in the teeth of death, atheism is a dreadfully bleak, hopeless ideology.
Q: For all of us, the most pressing question is whether we are ready to face death—do we have hope beyond the grave? "
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